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What is the noun for incompetent?

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incompetence
  1. Inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude.
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    1. “Many experts believe the toll would have been lower if it weren't for shoddy construction, corruption, and government incompetence.”
      “Perhaps he is admitting his failures and incompetence as a teacher in front of a council of which he is the president.”
      “Inspectors would not aim to reward excellence or to measure quality, merely to identify incompetence or fraud.”
incompetency
  1. The condition of being incompetent
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    1. “His unfailing courage and good sense won fights that the incompetency or cankering jealousy of commanders had lost.”
      “In other words, if you want to do business with us, you are not allowed to make fair comment on our incompetency.”
      “Galtieri was acquitted in that trial, but in 1986 he was convicted, along with two other officers, of incompetency in the Falkland Islands War.”
incompetent
incompetences
incompetencies
  1. plural of incompetency
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    1. “It is worth pointing out that many of the same incompetencies are frequently witnessed in adult decision-making!”
      “The fact that our new manager didn't tell him about this rather important security feature is just one more in a quickly growing list of her incompetencies.”
      “By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.”
incompetents
  1. plural of incompetent
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    1. “History is littered with despots and psychopaths, murderous dullards, evil geniuses, deadly incompetents, calamitous brutes of all descriptions.”
      “That is why, while I often criticize the sluggards and incompetents in government, my admiration for the good guys is boundless.”
      “I reckon we should start a list, outing all incompetents for the absolute waste of space they are.”
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