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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inadequacy
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
personal
▪ The search for personal inadequacy and behavioural defects has been the key focus of such research and policy.
▪ By no means can Ford's failure be wholly attributed to his personal inadequacies.
■ VERB
reveal
▪ But merely to recite examples of improvised education was to reveal their inadequacy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ My father teased me mercilessly to compensate for his own feelings of inadequacy.
▪ Parents were complaining about the school's inadequacies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Despite its many inadequacies, it gives us some picture of Sussex life as the Normans strengthened their hold.
▪ Essentially, all these blocks to communication and self-expression are to do with feelings of inadequacy, and poor self-image.
▪ He projected significant feelings of inadequacy.
▪ However, allowing credit to turn into debt is still viewed as a result of inadequacy or recklessness on the part of the individual.
▪ The inadequacy of communications cut Nice off from its hinterland, and condemned the entire county to poverty.
▪ The inadequacy of funding for child care and health coverage will manifest itself before long.
▪ The issue is further complicated by the lack of agreement on what constitutes illness and by the inadequacy of data.
▪ To them, it was a game, and those two had very large feelings of inadequacy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inadequacy

Inadequacy \In*ad"e*qua*cy\, n. [From Inadequate.] The quality or state of being inadequate or insufficient; defectiveness; insufficiency; inadequateness.

The inadequacy and consequent inefficacy of the alleged causes.
--Dr. T. Dwight.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inadequacy

1764, from inadequate + -cy. Related: Inadequacies.

Wiktionary
inadequacy

n. 1 The state of being inadequate. 2 A shortage of required material. 3 A lack of competence or ability.

WordNet
inadequacy

  1. n. lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" [syn: insufficiency, deficiency] [ant: sufficiency, sufficiency]

  2. a lack of competence; "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"; "juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents" [syn: insufficiency]

  3. unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate [syn: inadequateness] [ant: adequacy]

Usage examples of "inadequacy".

My guess is that at the very beginning of his teaching career he realized that he would have to compensate in some very definite, dramatic way for the physical inadequacies of his person -- his extreme nearsightedness, his dwarfism making him laughable, vulnerable.

The dynast was fair-minded and would not hold his minister responsible for the inadequacies of the cadavers.

Rita Clay Estrada All the excitement would take her mind off the inadequacies of the time period.

No greeting for your tutrix, not even an apology for the inadequacy of your final essay, which was not only sodden but hurried as well?

In view of the inherent possibility of cruelty in the practice, and the obvious inadequacy of the existing laws to prevent such cruelty, we deem the existing status of vivisection in this State to be a menace to the community, which calls for legislative investigation.

I updated cultural and political references, polished away a few of the more egregious stylistic inadequacies, and trimmed excess wordage here and there.

The look in his eyes made Julia suddenly aware of the transparency of her barracan and the inadequacy of her harem dress, which left her midsection bare.

The inadequacies of the Quadripartite extend into innumerable areas, but their prowess in physical and metaphysical prolepsis is unparalleled.

Or was it a male jealousy, a masculine unadmitted realization of our inadequacy?

It was rumored that their fabled mating inadequacy had led to the breakup of Volter Terra into two separate kingdoms many hundreds of seasons passed.

It was rumored that their fabled mating inadequacy had lead to the breakup of Volter Terra into two separate kingdoms many hundreds of seasons pass.

Steve moaned his citified inadequacy while he groped in the dark cave, trying to make his brain remember where the packsack was.

Nethaalye attacked her brother with images of his own behavior, colored with those details of personal inadequacies only siblings could know.

Unable to detach themselves as he did, unable to novocaine their emotional umbilicus, they sought halfway answers in subjective inadequacy.

I passed a cup to Usara and sipped at my own, finding the spices and warmth good enough to mask the inadequacy of the vintage.