incompetency

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

incompetency(n = noun.attribute) incompetence - lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications;

is a kind of inability, unfitness

Derived forms adjective incompetent₂, adjective incompetent₄, adjective incompetent₃

incompetency, n. [Cf. F. incompétence.].

The quality or state of being incompetent; lack of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; lack of qualifications or training (for a particular task); insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child for hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts. Gladstone. [1913 Webster]
Lack of competency or legal fitness; incapacity; disqualification, as of a person to be heard as a witness, or to act as a juror, or of a judge to try a cause.

Syn. -- Inability; insufficiency; inadequacy; disqualification; incapability; unfitness.