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Definition of inadequacy : The quality or state of being inadequate or insufficient; defectiveness; insufficiency; inadequateness.

Synonyms:

inadequateness, scarcity, helplessness, strong, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, underage, excess, inefficacy, scantness, want, drawback, affect

impotence, disability, incompetence, inability, incapability, powerlessness, feebleness, handicap, weakness

ineptitude

defect, faultiness, blotch, blemish, flaw, spoilage, incompleteness

meagerness, famine, pittance, niggardliness, scantiness, poverty, speck, scarceness, flyspeck, miserliness, skimpiness, stinginess, dearth, paucity, sparseness

imperfection, arrears, shortage, insufficiency, lack, shortcoming, deficiency, deficit, shortfall

futility, detrimentalness, ineffectiveness, good-for-nothingness, impracticality, unsuitability, failure, fruitlessness, uselessness

Usage examples:

• As the extent of his reading became gradually disclosed, however, her feeling of inadequacy grew, and she resolved in the future to make better use of her odd moments. - "A Modern Chronicle, Volume 5", Winston Churchill.
• He can relieve himself from such accountability only by showing that his equipment was inadequate and that the inadequacy was the result of causes beyond his control. - "Campaigning in Cuba", George Kennan.
• This view was formerly supported by the author but the chloramine treatment at Ottawa and other places has demonstrated the inadequacy of this explanation. - "Chlorination of Water", Joseph Race.