insufficiency
noun
[ ɪnsəˈfɪʃ(ə)nsi ]
• the condition of being insufficient.
• "insufficiency of adequate housing"
Similar:
lack,
inadequacy,
shortage,
want,
dearth,
deficit,
shortfall,
scarcity,
scarceness,
scantiness,
paucity,
absence,
undersupply,
sparseness,
deprivation,
meagreness,
shortness,
exiguity,
exiguousness,
Origin:
early 16th century (in the sense ‘incompetence, inability’): from late Latin insufficientia, from in- ‘not’ + Latin sufficere ‘be sufficient’.
