Definitions
the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
Word origin
Borrowed from Middle French compétence, from Late Latin competentia. Doublet of competency.
Used in a sentence
“Teachers are now required to teach intercultural communicative competence.”
“Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, / Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence.”
““money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence, it can afford no real satisfaction, as far as mere self is concerned.””
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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