Found 2 items, similar to incompetency.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: incompetency incompetency n : lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications [syn: incompetence] [ant: competence]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Incompetency Incompetence \In*com"pe*tence\, Incompetency \In*com"pe*tency\, n. [Cf. F. incomp['e]tence.] [1913 Webster] 1. 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. “Some inherent incompetency.” --Gladstone. Syn: incompetence. [1913 Webster] 2. (Law) 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. [1913 Webster]