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unsufficiency

unsufficiency 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 unsufficiency

alternative formunsufficience

Origin of unsufficiency

From un- + sufficiency.

Questions about unsufficiency

What is unsufficiency the obsolete form of?
Unsufficiency is the obsolete form of insufficiency.

Words near unsufficiency in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsufficiency (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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