Inefficiency vs Incompetence - What's the difference?
inefficiency | incompetence |
Lack of efficiency or effectiveness.
Inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude.
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* 1949:
* 1974:
As nouns the difference between inefficiency and incompetence
is that inefficiency is lack of efficiency or effectiveness while incompetence is inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude.inefficiency
English
(wikipedia inefficiency)Noun
(inefficiencies)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.