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insufficiency

/ɪnsəˈfɪʃənsi/ noun C2
  1. The lack of sufficiency: a shortage, the state of having or being not enough (of something). · Near-synonyms: deficiency (broadly synonymous), inadequacy· The troops went hungry because of the insufficiency of their supplies.

Plural insufficiencies

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