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单词 insufficiency
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Definition of insufficiency in English:

insufficiency

nounPlural insufficiencies ɪnsəˈfɪʃ(ə)nsiˌɪnsəˈfɪʃənsi
mass noun
  • 1The condition of being insufficient.

    insufficiency of adequate housing
    count noun there have been demands to redress such insufficiencies
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This may be due largely to their abstention from any aggressive interviewing, analysis of what has been said, or critique of the commune's insufficiencies.
    • I'm sorry, I forgot about exact data, but most of all attempts to shop online fail, mostly because of technical insufficiencies on the dealer side.
    • The National Institute for the Scientific Study of Peace would redress that insufficiency.
    • The decision to completely replace the roof in 1998 was made after getting roofer Kendall's advice, who advised that it would be cheaper and better to just redo the whole roof rather than to repair the insufficiencies.
    • Life under any conditions is filled with idiotic excursions, false goals, prodigal waste, disappointed loves, galling personal insufficiencies, half-witted associations.
    • Because users experience breakdowns and insufficiencies of an environment in their work, they should be able to report, react to, and resolve those problems.
    • This tradition, through sheer insufficiency, necessarily focuses attention and nurtures the greatest expertise at the company level and below.
    • We Christians are free to view existence as we choose, to determine if life's insufficiencies are or are not blessings from God.
    • We can all build constructive, and ever more fulfilling ways of life by learning to constantly identify our fears and insufficiencies and then taking concrete, corrective action.
    • Along with such developments, Valéry also addresses the question of the insufficiencies of literature stating among other things that ‘nothing has been written about love.’
    • The Chinese team demonstrated a fundamental professional insufficiency, and worse than this, they never bothered to play at anything more than half-steam.
    • With the rising incidence and therapeutic insufficiencies, it is now more apparent that asthma is first and foremost a very heterogeneous syndrome, with numerous cell types and mediators contributing to the disease phenotype.
    • Kay's suggestion, while neither shocking nor groundbreaking, leaves several questions unanswered and fails to overcome the insufficiencies of the homiletics he critiques.
    • He had a good heart, and treated me well, and his insufficiencies made him seem just as normal as anyone else.
    • They should listen to and correct the players' insufficiencies.
    • Even when greatly appreciating the works, he deftly pinpoints the internal inconsistencies (if any) or the insufficiencies of their arguments or presentations.
    • Its imperfections are what made it so beautiful, and while the insufficiencies were annoying and sometimes threatening, they're what made the happiness so much more enjoyable.
    • Too often, our politicians disparage Europe and impute to it evils - like unemployment - that are really the result of domestic insufficiencies.
    • Under abnormal conditions there is an excess or insufficiency of either yin or yang which leads to the occurrence of disease.
    • He defended German culture against its political appropriation by the Prussian and Austrian regimes, but criticized its insufficiencies, in Goethe, for example, who remained enthralled to the metaphysical tradition.
    Synonyms
    lack, inadequacy, shortage, want, dearth, deficit, shortfall
    scarcity, scarceness, scantiness, paucity, absence, undersupply, sparseness, deprivation, meagreness, shortness
    rare exiguity, exiguousness
    1. 1.1Medicine The inability of an organ to perform its normal function.
      renal insufficiency
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Hormonal factors appear to play a conflicting role in the regulation of salt and water balance under conditions of pulmonary insufficiency.
      • Methylergonovine should be used with caution, if at all, in patients with cardiac or peripheral vascular disease, or hepatic or renal insufficiency.
      • No specific dosage adjustments are recommended for patients with hepatic or renal insufficiency because of the drug's minimal systemic absorption.
      • As with other oral contraceptives, this product is contraindicated in women who have renal or hepatic insufficiency.
      • A person who has adrenal insufficiency should always carry identification stating the condition in case of an emergency.

Origin

Early 16th century (in the sense 'incompetence, inability'): from late Latin insufficientia, from in- 'not' + Latin sufficere 'be sufficient'.

 
 

Definition of insufficiency in US English:

insufficiency

nounˌɪnsəˈfɪʃənsiˌinsəˈfiSHənsē
  • 1The condition of being insufficient.

    insufficiency of adequate housing
    there have been demands to redress such insufficiencies
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He defended German culture against its political appropriation by the Prussian and Austrian regimes, but criticized its insufficiencies, in Goethe, for example, who remained enthralled to the metaphysical tradition.
    • He had a good heart, and treated me well, and his insufficiencies made him seem just as normal as anyone else.
    • This may be due largely to their abstention from any aggressive interviewing, analysis of what has been said, or critique of the commune's insufficiencies.
    • We can all build constructive, and ever more fulfilling ways of life by learning to constantly identify our fears and insufficiencies and then taking concrete, corrective action.
    • The Chinese team demonstrated a fundamental professional insufficiency, and worse than this, they never bothered to play at anything more than half-steam.
    • Even when greatly appreciating the works, he deftly pinpoints the internal inconsistencies (if any) or the insufficiencies of their arguments or presentations.
    • Life under any conditions is filled with idiotic excursions, false goals, prodigal waste, disappointed loves, galling personal insufficiencies, half-witted associations.
    • Its imperfections are what made it so beautiful, and while the insufficiencies were annoying and sometimes threatening, they're what made the happiness so much more enjoyable.
    • Along with such developments, Valéry also addresses the question of the insufficiencies of literature stating among other things that ‘nothing has been written about love.’
    • Under abnormal conditions there is an excess or insufficiency of either yin or yang which leads to the occurrence of disease.
    • I'm sorry, I forgot about exact data, but most of all attempts to shop online fail, mostly because of technical insufficiencies on the dealer side.
    • They should listen to and correct the players' insufficiencies.
    • With the rising incidence and therapeutic insufficiencies, it is now more apparent that asthma is first and foremost a very heterogeneous syndrome, with numerous cell types and mediators contributing to the disease phenotype.
    • The decision to completely replace the roof in 1998 was made after getting roofer Kendall's advice, who advised that it would be cheaper and better to just redo the whole roof rather than to repair the insufficiencies.
    • Because users experience breakdowns and insufficiencies of an environment in their work, they should be able to report, react to, and resolve those problems.
    • Kay's suggestion, while neither shocking nor groundbreaking, leaves several questions unanswered and fails to overcome the insufficiencies of the homiletics he critiques.
    • We Christians are free to view existence as we choose, to determine if life's insufficiencies are or are not blessings from God.
    • Too often, our politicians disparage Europe and impute to it evils - like unemployment - that are really the result of domestic insufficiencies.
    • This tradition, through sheer insufficiency, necessarily focuses attention and nurtures the greatest expertise at the company level and below.
    • The National Institute for the Scientific Study of Peace would redress that insufficiency.
    Synonyms
    lack, inadequacy, shortage, want, dearth, deficit, shortfall
    1. 1.1Medicine The inability of an organ to perform its normal function.
      renal insufficiency
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Methylergonovine should be used with caution, if at all, in patients with cardiac or peripheral vascular disease, or hepatic or renal insufficiency.
      • No specific dosage adjustments are recommended for patients with hepatic or renal insufficiency because of the drug's minimal systemic absorption.
      • A person who has adrenal insufficiency should always carry identification stating the condition in case of an emergency.
      • As with other oral contraceptives, this product is contraindicated in women who have renal or hepatic insufficiency.
      • Hormonal factors appear to play a conflicting role in the regulation of salt and water balance under conditions of pulmonary insufficiency.

Origin

Early 16th century (in the sense ‘incompetence, inability’): from late Latin insufficientia, from in- ‘not’ + Latin sufficere ‘be sufficient’.

 
 
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