Incompetence vs Ineptness - What's the difference?
incompetence | ineptness | Synonyms |
Inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude.
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The quality or degree of being inept.
:The ineptness of the novice jugglers was apparent as they frequently dropped their juggling pins.
Ineptness is a synonym of incompetence.
As nouns the difference between incompetence and ineptness
is that incompetence is inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude while ineptness is the quality or degree of being inept.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.
