Incompetence vs Disability - What's the difference?
incompetence | disability | Synonyms |
Inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude.
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State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.
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Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
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(uncountable, informal) Regular payments received by a disabled person, usually from the state
Disability is a synonym of incompetence.
As nouns the difference between incompetence and disability
is that incompetence is inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude while disability is state of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.incompetence
English
Noun
(-)- ... at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals--morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck
- Winston did not know why Withers had been disgraced. Perhaps it was for corruption or incompetence . Perhaps Big Brother was merely getting rid of a too-popular subordinate.
- The factory where she worked was a poisonous mass of incompetence , favoritism, and sabotage.
disability
Noun
(en-noun)- Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted.
- Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability .
- The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture.
- I had to go on disability after the accident.
- Did you get your disability this month?
