competency
competency Lexical Profile
competency Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The ability, skill, or knowledge required to do something successfully or efficiently; a specific, measurable qualification or capability needed to perform a particular job or role.
"The training program is designed to evaluate each candidate's core competencies in project management and data analysis."
The legal capacity, mental fitness, or authority of a person or court to participate in legal proceedings, stand trial, or adjudicate a matter.
"The judge ordered a psychiatric evaluation to determine the defendant's competency to stand trial."
An income or financial means sufficient to provide a comfortable living without the need to work (chiefly archaic or literary).
"Having inherited a modest competency from his late uncle, he retired to the countryside to pursue his botanical studies."
Word Nuance & Usage
While often interchangeable with "competence," "competency" (frequently used in the plural as "competencies") is preferred in business, education, and human resources to denote specific, measurable skills or behaviors, whereas "competence" typically refers to general overall ability.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 16th century from Latin competentia ('sufficiency, symmetry, agreement'), from competens, the present participle of competere ('to strive together, coincide, be fit or qualified').