insufficiency

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc.

Want of power or skill; inability; incapacity; incompetency; as, the insufficiency of a man for an office.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

deficiency inadequacy need lack pittance failure want absence poverty insufficient deficit inability drought famine inadequate

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Antonyms

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Hypernyms

amount failing inability weakness unfitness

Hyponyms

deficit shortage scarcity leanness scantiness poorness

Phrases with the word

circulatory insufficiency aortic insufficiency hepatic insufficiency facial nerve insufficiency respiratory insufficiency mitral valve insufficiency

Examples

the inadequacy of unemployment benefits Source: Internet

pointed out the insufficiencies in my report Source: Internet

juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents Source: Internet

Adrenal insufficiency Treatment of the adrenal insufficiency that can accompany any of the common male phenotypes of ALD does not resolve any of the neurological symptoms. Source: Internet

Adrenal insufficiency Adrenal insufficiency (the deficiency of glucocorticoids ) occurs in about 5 in 10,000 in the general population. Source: Internet

Dante describes acedia as the failure to love God with all one's heart, all one's mind and all one's soul; to him it was the middle sin, the only one characterised by an absence or insufficiency of love. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

insufferableness insufferably insufficience insufficiency of the adrenals insufficient insufficient amount