All sufficiency antonyms

noun sufficiency

• lack — something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
• want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
• fewness — the state of being few or small in quantity; paucity.
• dead horse — something that has ceased to be useful or relevant.
• in hock — If someone is in hock, they are in debt.
• lopsidedness — heavier, larger, or more developed on one side than on the other; unevenly balanced; unsymmetrical.
• implosion — the act of imploding; a bursting inward (opposed to explosion).
• deficiency — Deficiency in something, especially something that your body needs, is not having enough of it.
• in the hole — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
• due bill — a brief written acknowledgment of indebtedness, not payable to order.
• faultiness — having faults or defects; imperfect.
• absence — Someone's absence from a place is the fact that they are not there.
• deficit — A deficit is the amount by which something is less than what is required or expected, especially the amount by which the total money received is less than the total money spent.
• necessitousness — The state or condition of impoverishment; material need, especially of an urgent nature.
• lead balloon — a total failure
• inability — lack of ability; lack of power, capacity, or means: his inability to make decisions.
• need — a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.
• neediness — a condition of want or need; poverty; indigence.
• inadequacy — Also, inadequateness [in-ad-i-kwit-nis] /ɪnˈæd ɪ kwɪt nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being inadequate; insufficiency.
• nonfeasance — the omission of some act that ought to have been performed. Compare malfeasance, misfeasance (def 2).
• nonsuccess — Absence of success; failure.
• exiguity — The quality of being meagre or scanty.
• etiolation — (botany) growth process of plants grown in the absence of light, characterized by long, weak stems, fewer leaves and chlorosis.
• insufficience — Obsolete form of insufficiency.
• drought — A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall; a shortage of water resulting from this.
• ineptness — without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit: He is inept at mechanical tasks. She is inept at dealing with people.
• exiguousness — The quality of being meagre or scanty.
• incompetency — the quality or condition of being incompetent; lack of ability.
• inadequateness — Inadequacy.
• desiccation — Desiccation is the process of becoming completely dried out.
• inaptitude — lack of aptitude; unfitness.
• incompleteness — not complete; lacking some part.
• impoverishment — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
• defalcation — the amount embezzled
• imperfection — an imperfect detail; flaw: a law full of imperfections.
• insufficiency — deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy: insufficiency of supplies.
• effeteness — lacking in wholesome vigor; degenerate; decadent: an effete, overrefined society.
• default — If a person, company, or country defaults on something that they have legally agreed to do, such as paying some money or doing a piece of work before a particular time, they fail to do it.
• inaptness — Quality of being inapt.
• incapability — not capable.
• lameness — crippled or physically disabled, especially in the foot or leg so as to limp or walk with difficulty.
• impecuniousness — The property of being impecunious.
• inutility — uselessness.
• incapacitation — to deprive of ability, qualification, or strength; make incapable or unfit; disable.
• abjection — an abject state or condition
• leanness — (of persons or animals) without much flesh or fat; not plump or fat; thin: lean cattle.
• dry spell — a prolonged period of dry weather.
• dearth — If there is a dearth of something, there is not enough of it.
• infirmness — The quality of being infirm; feebleness.
• nonperformance — failure or neglect to perform.