Synonyms:
competence, competency
Meaning: the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
Usage examples
Competence no longer mattered so much.
I go where glory or a modest competence waits me.
But how others acted was not his concern; he must consider his own competence to bear the burden--the perilous burden he had asked, and which had been promised to him.
The Lobby lost, but didn't know it--because the lowered standards of competence in the profession lowered the caliber of men running the political aspects of that profession as exemplified by the Lobby.