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inadequacy   (TTS Sound)

The noun inadequacy has 3 senses

• insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency -- (lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits")


• insufficiency, inadequacy -- (a lack of competence; "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"; "juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents")


• inadequacy, inadequateness -- (unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate)