insufficiency
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From in- + sufficiency.
Noun[edit]
insufficiency (plural insufficiencies)
- The lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.
- The troops went hungry because of the insufficiency of their supplies.
- 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 3, page 160:
- She may crowd her days with gaiety, variety, and what are called amusements; she will do so only to find their insufficiency.
- 1962 October, “Beyond the Channel: Western Germany: Rhine right-bank line re-signalling”, in Modern Railways, page 276:
- On a recent trip down the Rhine many of the trains we saw were still steam-hauled, presumably through an insufficiency of electric locomotives, as yet, to deal with peak summer traffic.
- Synonym: (obsolete) unsufficiency
Translations[edit]
the lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy
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