Stupidity vs Incompetent - What's the difference?
stupidity | incompetent |
(uncountable) The property of being stupid.
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, title= (countable) An act that is stupid.
Unskilled, lacking normally expected degree of ability.
Unable to make rational decisions, insane or otherwise cognitively impaired.
As a noun stupidity
is (uncountable) the property of being stupid.As an adjective incompetent is
incompetent.stupidity
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* (rare)Noun
(wikipedia stupidity)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.}}
incompetent
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Adjective
(head)- Having an incompetent lawyer may be grounds for a retrial, but the lawyer in question probably doesn't know that.
- The charged was judged incompetent to stand trial, at least until his medication started working.