1 She believes the noises are made by ghosts, but I think there's a more prosaic explanation. 2  For the most part, the descriptions of the books listed in the âCatalog,â though informative, are relentlessly prosaic, even hackneyed. â 3 Mordecai Richler, New York Times Book Review, 8 Oct. 1989. She believes the noises are made by ghosts, but I think there's a more prosaic explanation. 2  For the most part, the descriptions of the books listed in the âCatalog,â though informative, are relentlessly prosaic, even hackneyed. â 3 Mordecai Richler, New York Times Book Review, 8 Oct. 1989.
Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  Incompetency(noun) the quality or state of being incompetent; want of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts.
Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  prepotency(Noun) The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance. 2  prepotency(Noun) The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring.