insufficiency

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English sufficiency English insufficiency From in- + sufficiency.

1. The lack of sufficiency: a shortage, the state of having or being not enough (of something).

   “Near-synonyms: deficiency (broadly synonymous), inadequacy”

   “The troops went hungry because of the insufficiency of their supplies.”