Usually means: Lack of necessary amount, adequacy.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word insufficiency:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. insufficiency: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. insufficiency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. insufficiency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. insufficiency: Collins English Dictionary
  5. insufficiency: Vocabulary.com
  6. Insufficiency, insufficiency: Wordnik
  7. insufficiency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. insufficiency: Wiktionary
  9. insufficiency: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. insufficiency: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. insufficiency: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. insufficiency: Dictionary.com
  13. Insufficiency: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Insufficiency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. insufficiency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. insufficiency: Rhymezone
  17. Insufficiency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. insufficiency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. insufficiency: Free Dictionary
  20. insufficiency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. insufficiency: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. insufficiency: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insufficiency: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. insufficiency: Medical dictionary

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noun:  The lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.

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