insufficiency.
The lack of sufficiency: a shortage, the state of having or being not enough (of something).
Meaning & usage
The lack of sufficiency: a shortage, the state of having or being not enough (of something).
The troops went hungry because of the insufficiency of their supplies.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English sufficiency English insufficiency From in- + sufficiency.
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