Deficiency in some desirable quality; lack of worth or excellence; inferiority, inadequacy. Also: an instance of this.
Unsatisfactoriness. Obsolete.
Originally: the quality or state of being bad or deserving condemnation. Later usually (in weakened use) lamentableness, awfulness, inadequacy.
The quality of being inadequate; inadequacy.
The condition or quality of being inadequate; insufficiency.