Antonyms for insufficiency
ˌɪn səˈfɪʃ ən siin·suf·fi·cien·cy

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1. insufficiency

   Antonyms:
   dissipation, excess, exorbitance, extravagance, intemperance, lavishness, overplus, prodigality, profusion, redundance, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, waste, wastefulness

   Synonyms:
   dearth, defect, deficiency, destitution, economy, failure, frugality, inadequacy, lack, need, poverty, scantiness, shortcoming, want

Matched Categories

1. • Amount
   • Failing
   • Inability
   • Pathology

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1. insufficiency, inadequacynoun

   a lack of competence

   "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"; "juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents"

   Antonyms:
   sufficiency, adequacy

   Synonyms:
   inadequacy, deficiency, inadequateness

2. insufficiencynoun

   (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally

   Antonyms:
   adequacy, sufficiency

   Synonyms:
   inadequacy, deficiency

3. insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiencynoun

   lack of an adequate quantity or number

   "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"

   Antonyms:
   sufficiency, adequacy

   Synonyms:
   lack, inadequacy, deficiency, want, inadequateness

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1. insufficiencynoun

   Synonyms:
   deficiency, inadequacy

How to use insufficiency in a sentence?

1. Aberjhani:

   Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one’s total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.

2. Jeremy Collier:

   There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

3. Robin Foroutan:

   What’s interesting is a B12 insufficiency or deficiency can look like a psychiatric disorder.

4. Siyar Guldiken:

   We couldn’t live and share our grief as much as we wanted to, this stemmed from the insufficiency of the measures.

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