Associations to the word «Insufficiency»

Wiktionary

INSUFFICIENCY, noun. The lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.

Dictionary definition

INSUFFICIENCY, noun. A lack of competence; "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"; "juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents".
INSUFFICIENCY, noun. (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally.
INSUFFICIENCY, noun. Lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin