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insufficiency

 
Noun insufficiency has 3 senses
  1. insufficiency, inadequacy - a lack of competence; "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"; "juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents"
    --1 is a kind of failing, weakness
  2. insufficiency - (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally
    --2 is a kind of
    inability, unfitness
    --2 has particulars: coronary insufficiency, cardiac insufficiency; renal insufficiency
  3. insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency - lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
    --3 is a kind of amount
    Antonyms: sufficiency, adequacy
    --3 has particulars:
     meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity; deficit, shortage, shortfall; scarcity, scarceness
insubstanial insubstantial insubstantiality insubstantially insufferable insufferably insufferrably insufficiant insufficiency insufficient insufficient temptation insufficiently insuffisamment insuffisances insufflate insufflation insukate

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