insufficiency
About 3.64 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The lack of sufficiency: a shortage, the state of having or being not enough (of something).
The troops went hungry because of the insufficiency of their supplies.
Similar words
deficiency inadequacy lack deficient insufficient deficit inadequate shortcoming underreporting failure
Often followed by
of and in is or may with are to
Word family
insufficiencies
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