Expertise and Incompetence

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Expertise noun - Knowledge gained by actually doing or living through something.

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Incompetence is an antonym for expertise in topics: knowledge, inexperience.

Nearby Words: expert, expertised, expertising

Incompetence noun - The lack of sufficient ability, power, or means.

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Expertise is an antonym for incompetence in competence topic.

Nearby Words: incompetent, incompetently

individual	individual expertise	individual incompetence
considerable	considerable expertise	considerable incompetence
true	true expertise	true incompetence
simple	simple expertise	simple incompetence
Other adjectives: actual, massive, remarkable, personal, professional, apparent, military, scientific, sudden, tactical.

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