inadequacy
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- n lack of an adequate quantity or number
the inadequacy of unemployment benefits - n a lack of competence
juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents - n unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate
- A psychologist's report, written when Chessman was 18, noted that his "boastfulness is a compensation for underlying feelings of insecurity and inadequacy.
- I think it started with feelings of inadequacy, his inability to accept failure, his fear of failure.
- Still, it's hard to imagine a culture more conducive to feelings of sexual inadequacy than America in the 1990s.