Synonyms of competences

competences

noun

plural of competence

as in abilities

the physical or mental power to do something

questioned his competence to finish the task without help

Synonyms & Similar Words

• abilities
• competencies
• capacities
• skills
• aptitudes
• faculties
• capabilities
• talents
• reasons
• facilities
• equipments
• instincts
• gifts
• intelligences
• resources
• hands
• endowments
• understandings
• dexterities
• knacks
• addresses
• potencies
• influences
• prowesses
• adequacies
• gray matters
• means
• mights
• staying powers
• stuff
• puissances
• forms
• wherewithals
• kens

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• incapacities
• disabilities
• inabilities
• incapabilities
• weaknesses
• impotences
• deficiencies
• incompetencies
• inadequacies
• incompetences
• ineptitudes
• impairments
• debilitations
• inefficacies
• ineffectualities
• paralyses
• disablements
• incapacitations

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of competences

These parties’ platforms vary, but both point toward repatriating competences to national governments, weakening European Court of Justice jurisdiction, and loosening the common rules that make EU commitments credible to outside partners. — Jonas Nahm, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2026

Over billions of years, increasingly greater competences evolved. — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025