单词 | incompetence |
释义 | incompetencen.ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] unsuffisant1387 over-little?a1400 non-suffisantee1425 unsufficience1445 insufficience1486 insufficiency1531 faintness1543 non-sufficiency1584 non-sufficience1598 incompetence1663 1663 J. Heath Flagellum (1672) 160 The niggardliness and incompetence of his reward. 2. a. The fact or condition of being personally or practically incompetent; want of competence; lack of the requisite ability, power, or qualification; incapacity. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [noun] > for what is required > personal insuffisancec1400 insufficiencea1464 unsuffisance1483 insufficienta1513 insufficiency1526 insufficientnessc1585 incompetencea1716 inadequacy1817 a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VII. 302 That Incompetence arises from this: That no Man can judge rightly of two Things, but by comparing them together. 1812 W. Godwin in C. K. Paul William Godwin (1876) II. 213 The feeling I had in myself of an incompetence for the education of daughters. 1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion viii. 360 Therefore no incompetence of mine Could do them wrong. View more context for this quotation 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 201 The incompetence of the tradesman to whom the work is entrusted. b. Medicine. Inability to function correctly; esp. inadequacy of a valve or sphincter properly to regulate the passage of liquid or solid matter. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [noun] > disordered functioning ataxy1670 overaction1741 excitement1788 perversion1834 stammering1844 incompetency1865 incompetence1876 hypermotility1894 hypomotility1900 hypofunction1905 hyperfunction1909 hypoactivity1910 hyperfunctioning1918 hypofunctioning1926 1876 Trans. Clin. Soc. 9 47 I found..on examination, incompetence of the aortic and mitral valves. 1890 F. Taylor Man. Pract. Med. 458 Incompetence of the aortic valves gives rise to a murmur during the dilatation of the ventricle. 1900 W. A. N. Dorland Amer. Illustr. Med. Dict. (at cited word) Pyloric i[ncompetence], passage of food undigested into the intestine. 1939 J. H. Dible & T. B. Davie Pathol. xxxii. 535 If there has been much necrosis, contraction, or deformity of the valve curtain, a definite degree of incompetence will be left. 1950 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 59 69 The symptoms of the incompetence of the internal os are chiefly those of habitual abortion. 1970 Med. Jrnl. Austral. 25 July 179/1 The incidence of round ligament vein incompetence in women greatly exceeds that of short saphenous vein incompetence. 1971 Gut XII. 102 Of 19 patients.., 17 (89%) exhibited duodenogastric reflux of barium indicating pyloric incompetence. 1971 Biol. Abstr. 52 8355/1 Gonadotropic hormones, the prostate and an experimental model of its incompetence. 3. Of a logical conclusion: Want of legitimacy or propriety; faultiness: = incompetency n. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [noun] > logical fallacy > faultiness incompetency1833 incompetencea1856 a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. App. 465 It shows, at a glance, the competence or incompetence of any conclusion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1663 |
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