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Perform vs Incompetence - What's the difference?

perform | incompetence |

As a verb perform

is to do something; to execute.

As a noun incompetence is

inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude.

perform

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To do something; to execute.
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  • To do something in front of an audience, often in order to entertain it.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Perform a part thou hast not done before.

    Derived terms

    * performance * performant * performative * performator * performer

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    incompetence

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude.
  • * 1851:
    • ... 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
  • * 1949:
    • 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.
  • * 1974:
    • The factory where she worked was a poisonous mass of incompetence , favoritism, and sabotage.

    Related terms

    * competency * incompetency