Maturity vs Competence - What's the difference?
maturity | competence |
The state of being mature, ready or ripe
When bodily growth has completed and/or reproduction can begin
(countable, finance) Date when payment is due
(uncountable) The quality or state of being competent, i.e. able or suitable for a general role.
* 2005 , Lies Sercu and Ewa Bandura, Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence: An International Investigation :
(countable) The quality or state of being able or suitable for a particular task; the quality or state of being competent for a particular task.
* 1961 , National Council for Elementary Science (U.S.), Science Education :
A sustainable income.
* Alexander Pope
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 17
(countable) In law, the legal authority to deal with a matter.
As nouns the difference between maturity and competence
is that maturity is the state of being mature, ready or ripe while competence is skill.maturity
English
(wikipedia maturity)Noun
- ''Some foods and drinks, like wine, only reach their full taste at maturity , which literally comes at a price
- ''The entire tank of was in their maturity and ready to mate.
- ''Some insect species reach sexual maturity well before their own bodily maturity
- The note was cashed at maturity .
Synonyms
* matureness * ripeness * adulthood * (finance) due dateAntonyms
* immaturityDerived terms
* maturity date * sexual maturitycompetence
English
Noun
- Teachers are now required to teach intercultural communicative competence .
- What professional competences do science teachers need?
- Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, / Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence .
- “money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence , it can afford no real satisfaction, as far as mere self is concerned.”
- That question is out with the competence of this court and must be taken to a higher court.