competenceとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmpətəns/

名詞

competence (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 competences)

1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being competent, i.e. able or suitable for a general role.
   • 2005, Lies Sercu and Ewa Bandura, Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence: An International Investigation:

     Teachers are now required to teach intercultural communicative competence.

2. (countable) The quality or state of being able or suitable for a particular task; the quality or state of being competent for a particular task.
3. (linguistics) The system of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language, as opposed to its actual use in concrete situations (performance), cf. w:linguistic competence.
4. (dated) A sustainable income.
   • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], OCLC 960856019:

     Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, / Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence.

   • 1811, Jane Austen, chapter 17, in Sense and Sensibility:

     “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.”

5. (countable, law) the legal authority to deal with a matter.

   That question is out with the competence of this court and must be taken to a higher court.

同意語

• ability
• competency
• nous
• savoir-faire
• knack (colloq.)
• aptitude
• See also Thesaurus:skill

反意語

• inability
• ineptitude
• incompetence

関連する語

• compete
• competition
• competentness

参照

• “competence” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.