competency

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From Late Latin competentia. Doublet of competence.

countable, uncountable The ability to perform some task; competence. The loan demonstrates, in regard to instrumental resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause.
countable, uncountable An individual's capacity to understand the nature and implications of their legal rights and obligations.
countable, uncountable Implicit knowledge of a language’s structure.
countable, obsolete, uncountable A sufficient supply of something. the next day they returned unsuspected, leaving their confederates to follow, and in the interim, to convay them a competencie of all things they could […]
countable, obsolete, uncountable A sustainable income. Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.