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单词 incompetence
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incompetencen.

/ɪnˈkɒmpɪtəns/
Etymology: < French incompétence (1549 in R. Estienne), < in- (in- prefix4) + compétence : after incompetent adj. and n.
1. Inadequacy, insufficiency. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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