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incompetence (n.)
1660s, "inadequacy;" 1716, "want of skill," from or modeled on French
incompétence
(16c.), from
in-
"not, opposite of, without" (see
in-
(1)) +
compétence
(see
competence
). Native formation
incompetency
is older (1610s).
