单词 | insufficiency |
释义 | insufficiency/ɪnsəˈfɪʃ(ə)nsi /noun (plural insufficiencies) [mass noun] 1The condition of being insufficient: insufficiency of adequate housing [count noun]: there have been demands to redress such insufficiencies...
Synonyms lack, inadequacy, shortage, want, dearth, deficit, shortfall; scarcity, scarceness, scantiness, paucity, absence, undersupply, sparseness, deprivation, meagreness, shortness rare exiguity, exiguousness 1.1 Medicine The inability of an organ to perform its normal function: renal insufficiency...
OriginEarly 16th century (in the sense 'incompetence, inability'): from late Latin insufficientia, from in- 'not' + Latin sufficere 'be sufficient'. |
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