NOUN | state | insufficiency, inadequacy | a lack of competence |
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state | insufficiency | (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally | |
attribute | insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency | lack of an adequate quantity or number |
Meaning | A lack of competence. | |
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Synonym | inadequacy | |
Broader | failing, weakness | A flaw or weak point |
Spanish | insuficiencia | |
Catalan | insuficiència |
Meaning | (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally. | |
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Category | pathology | The branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases |
Narrower | coronary insufficiency, cardiac insufficiency | inadequate blood flow to the heart muscles |
Broader | inability, unfitness | lacking the power to perform |
Spanish | insuficiencia | |
Catalan | insuficiència |
Meaning | lack of an adequate quantity or number. | |
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Synonyms | inadequacy, deficiency | |
Narrower | deficit, shortage, shortfall | The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required |
meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity | The quality of being meager | |
scarcity, scarceness | A small and inadequate amount | |
slenderness | The quality of being slight or inadequate | |
Broader | amount | The relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion |
Opposite | sufficiency, adequacy | The quality of being sufficient for the end in view |
Spanish | carencia, deficiencia, insuficiencia, pobreza | |
Catalan | deficiència, dèficit, insuficiència, manca | |
Adjectives | insufficient | of a quantity not able to fulfill / fulfill a need or requirement |
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