Insufficiency vs. Deficiency
Insufficiency and Deficiency Definitions
Insufficiency
Inadequate supply
An insufficiency of funds.
Deficiency
The quality or condition of being deficient; incompleteness or inadequacy.
Insufficiency
Inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally
Cardiac insufficiency.
Deficiency
A lack or shortage, especially of something essential to health
A nutritional deficiency.
Insufficiency
Moral or mental incompetence.
Deficiency
(uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
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Insufficiency
A failing; an inadequacy
Pointed out the insufficiencies in my report.
Deficiency
(countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
Insufficiency
The lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.
The troops went hungry because of the insufficiency of their supplies.
Deficiency
(geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
Insufficiency
The quality or state of being insufficient; lack of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc.
The insufficiency of the light of nature is, by the light of Scripture, . . . fully supplied.
Deficiency
(geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
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Insufficiency
Lack of power or skill; inability; incapacity; incompetency; as, the insufficiency of a man for an office.
Deficiency
The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
Insufficiency
A lack of competence;
Pointed out the insufficiencies in my report
Juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents
Deficiency
The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable;
There is a serious lack of insight into the problem
Water is the critical deficiency in desert regions
For want of a nail the shoe was lost
Insufficiency
(pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally
Deficiency
Lack of an adequate quantity or number;
The inadequacy of unemployment benefits
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Insufficiency
Lack of an adequate quantity or number;
The inadequacy of unemployment benefits
