- 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
- 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- 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 - insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency - lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"