insufficiency

Nouns

  • (n) a lack of competence
    • pointed out the insufficiencies in my report
    • juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents
    inadequacy,
  • (n) (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally
  • (n) lack of an adequate quantity or number
    • the inadequacy of unemployment benefits
    inadequacy, deficiency,

Synonyms

inadequacy deficiency

Antonyms

adequacy sufficiency

Words of close approximity

insufficient