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inadequacy

inadequacy - noun

  1. The condition or state of being incapable of accomplishing or effecting anything: helplessness, impotence, incapability, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inefficacy, powerlessness, uselessness. See affect. strong.
  2. The condition or fact of being deficient: defect, deficiency, deficit, insufficiency, lack, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, underage. See excess.