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insufficiency
noun as in lack
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An increase is also noted in the uric-acid diathesis and in diseases accompanied by respiratory insufficiency.
The poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.
They too hastily confessed the insufficiency of arms and fortifications.
I believe that a few of the prisoners succumbed to disease and died because they had an insufficiency of nourishing food.
It was this insufficiency of rations which wrought the fatal dnouement of the glorious enterprise of Burke and Wills.
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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to insufficiency, such as: deficiency, inadequacy, paucity, dearth, inability, and incompetency.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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