Incompetence vs Stultify - What's the difference?
incompetence | stultify |
Inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude.
* 1851:
* 1949:
* 1974:
To prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence.
To cause to appear foolish.
To deprive of strength or efficacy; make useless or worthless.
As a noun incompetence
is inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude.As a verb stultify is
to prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence.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.
