insufficiency - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

lack of an adequate quantity or number

Synonyms

• deficiency
• inadequacy
• insufficiency

More generic

• amount

Opposite / Antonyms

• sufficiency

More specific

• deficit
• exiguity
• leanness
• meagerness
• meagreness
• poorness
• scantiness
• scantness
• scarceness
• scarcity
• shortage
• shortfall
• slenderness

Noun

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

Synonyms

• insufficiency

More generic

• inability
• unfitness

More specific

• cardiac insufficiency
• coronary insufficiency

Noun

a lack of competence

Synonyms

• inadequacy
• insufficiency

More generic

• failing
• weakness

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