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Noun: insufficiency  `insu'fishunsee
  1. A lack of competence
    "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"
    - inadequacy
     
  2. (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally
     
  3. Lack of an adequate quantity or number
    - inadequacy, deficiency

Derived forms: insufficiencies

See also: insufficient

Type of: amount, failing, inability, unfitness, weakness

Antonym: sufficiency

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instrumentally
instrumentate
instrumentation
insubordinate
insubordination
insubstantial
insubstantiality
insubstantially
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insufferably
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insufficiently
insufflate
insufflation
insulant
insular
insularism
insularity
insulate
insulating material