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COMPETENCE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does competence mean?

• COMPETENCE (noun)
The noun COMPETENCE has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually

Familiarity information: COMPETENCE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• COMPETENCE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

competence; competency

Hypernyms ("competence" is a kind of...):

ability (the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "competence"):

fitness (the quality of being qualified)

proficiency (the quality of having great facility and competence)

Antonym:

incompetence (lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications)

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