All insufficience synonyms
noun insufficience
- destitution — Destitution is the state of having no money or possessions.
- distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- exigency — An urgent need or demand.
- exiguity — The quality of being meagre or scanty.
- inferiority — lower in station, rank, degree, or grade (often followed by to): a rank inferior to colonel.
- meagerness — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- necessity — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- retrenchment — the act of retrenching; a cutting down or off, as by the reduction of expenses.
- shortness — having little length; not long.
- shrinkage — the act or fact of shrinking.
- shrinking — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
- slight — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
- stint — to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance: Don't stint on the food. They stinted for years in order to save money.
- smallness — of limited size; of comparatively restricted dimensions; not big; little: a small box.
- famine — extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area.
- fewness — the state of being few or small in quantity; paucity.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- rarity — something rare, unusual, or uncommon: Snowstorms are a rarity in the South.
- make oneself scarce — insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant: Meat and butter were scarce during the war.
- slenderness — having a circumference that is small in proportion to the height or length: a slender post.
- sparseness — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- sparsity — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- defectiveness — having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect: a defective machine.
- incompleteness — not complete; lacking some part.