insufficiency

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noun

1. lack of an adequate quantity or number
- the inadequacy of unemployment benefits
• Syn:
inadequacy, deficiency
• Ant:
adequacy (for: inadequacy), sufficiency
• Derivationally related forms:
deficient (for: deficiency), insufficient
• Hypernyms:
amount
• Hyponyms:
meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness,
scantness, exiguity, deficit, shortage, shortfall, scarcity,
scarceness, slenderness
2. a lack of competence
- pointed out the insufficiencies in my report
- juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents
• Syn:
inadequacy
• Hypernyms:
failing, weakness
3. (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally
• Topics:
pathology
• Hypernyms:
inability, unfitness
• Hyponyms:
coronary insufficiency, cardiac insufficiency

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  inadequacy, deficiency
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  sufficiency, adequacy