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unsufficience

unsufficience is the obsolete form of insufficiency.

Meaning of insufficiency

Noun

insufficiency (plural insufficiencies)

  1. The lack of sufficiency: a shortage, the state of having or being not enough (of something).
    • Near-synonyms: deficiency (broadly synonymous), inadequacy
    Synonyms:
    lack, unsufficiency, deficiency[Appendix:Glossary, inadequacy

Forms of unsufficience

pluralunsufficiences

Origin of unsufficience

From un- + sufficience.

Questions about unsufficience

What is unsufficience the obsolete form of?
Unsufficience is the obsolete form of insufficiency.

Words near unsufficience in the dictionary

  1. unsufferableness
  2. unsufferably
  3. unsuffered
  4. unsuffering
  5. unsufficed
  6. unsufficience
  7. unsufficiences
  8. unsufficiency
  9. unsufficient
  10. unsufficiently
  11. unsufficing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsufficience (page history and authors); insufficiency (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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