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US
/ˌɪˈnædɪkwəsi/
]
[ UK /ɪnˈædɪkwəsi/ ]
[ UK /ɪnˈædɪkwəsi/ ]
NOUN
- unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate
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a lack of competence
pointed out the insufficiencies in my report
juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents -
lack of an adequate quantity or number
the inadequacy of unemployment benefits
How To Use inadequacy In A Sentence
- Often the parent feels helpless and very discouraged and may also give up on the child which reinforces the child's feelings of inadequacy and may cause the child to retreat or regress further.
- The Tomlinson report's description of the inadequacy of primary and community health services in London commands widespread agreement.
- The cause of famine, consequently, is not an inadequacy of food.
- Stanley's complaint is about the inadequacy of phyletic gradualism to account for the known facts of paleontology and the superiority of punctuated equilibria as an explanation for those facts.
- Obsessively monitoring lines and wrinkles, swollen ankles and grey hairs, they are haunted by feelings of self-hatred and inadequacy.
- The overwhelming impression of Soul is of a science in retreat, forced to admit the inadequacy of its materialism.
- People who know that rebuffs are expectable and that failure is remediable - that it results from lack of effort or situational factors and not personal inadequacy - are not debilitated by setbacks.
- The problem of positivism in pedagogy study lies in its technicalization and the anti- positivism of academy, and methodological inadequacy of its denial of value relationship.
- One of the main concerns about the plan centred on the inadequacy of the current sewage system.
- To try to block out feelings of emotional pain or inadequacy. Taking Drugs Seriously
