competence vs competency
Definitions
noun
- the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
Examples
Bounties were paid right across a banking sector whose incompetence threw thousands of innocents into jeopardy.
This is not by any means the only instance of financial incompetence on the part of our various Scottish ancestors, nor indeed of the tendency to resort to violence, and those patterns offer surprisingly little reassurance from the genetic standpoint.
This all plays to the core competence of business attorneys.
Definitions
noun
- the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
Examples
But freshman composition, like the writing test, assumed a level of competency that few of these students had attained.
But freshman composition, like the writing test, assumed a level of competency that few of these students had attained.
The result is a cultural competency whose previous absence hindered the chances of success for First Nations clients of social services.
