insufficiency
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Related to acute adrenocortical insufficiency: Addison's syndrome, Adrenal insufficiency, Cushing syndrome
insufficiency
noun absence, dearth, deficiency, deficit, depletion, emptiness, exhaustion, exiguity, falling short, fewness, inadequacy, incompetence, incompleteness, inopia, lack, need, not enough, paucity, scantiness, scantness, scarcity, short fall, short measure, short supply, shortage, shortcoming, sparseness, stint, too few, wantAssociated concepts: insufficiency of evidence, insufficiency of law to support a verdict
See also: abortion, dearth, defect, deficiency, deficit, delinquency, demand, detriment, disability, disadvantage, disqualification, failure, fault, handicap, immateriality, impotence, inability, incompetence, indigence, inefficacy, market, need, paucity, privation
INSUFFICIENCY. What is not competent; not enough.