insufficiency

insufficiency has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 13.

Definitions

• n.. The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc.
• n.. Want of power or skill; inability; incapacity; incompetency; as, the insufficiency of a man for an office.
• n.. lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
• n.. (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally
• n.. a lack of competence; "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"; "juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents"