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inadequacy
Overview of noun inadequacy
The noun inadequacy has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency -- (lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits")
2. insufficiency, inadequacy -- (a lack of competence; "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"; "juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents")
3. inadequacy, inadequateness -- (unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun inadequacy
3 senses of inadequacy
Sense 1
insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
=> amount
=> magnitude
=> property
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
insufficiency, inadequacy
=> failing, weakness
=> imperfection, imperfectness
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
inadequacy, inadequateness
=> unsatisfactoriness
=> quality
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun inadequacy
1 of 3 senses of inadequacy
Sense 1
insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
=> meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity
=> deficit, shortage, shortfall
=> scarcity, scarceness
=> slenderness
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun inadequacy
3 senses of inadequacy
Sense 1
insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
=> amount
Sense 2
insufficiency, inadequacy
=> failing, weakness
Sense 3
inadequacy, inadequateness
=> unsatisfactoriness
Antonyms of noun inadequacy
2 of 3 senses of inadequacy
Sense 1
insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
Antonym of adequacy (Sense 2)
=>sufficiency, adequacy
Sense 3
inadequacy, inadequateness
Antonym of adequacy (Sense 1)
=>adequacy, adequateness
Member Holonyms of noun inadequacy
Substance Holonyms of noun inadequacy
Part Holonyms of noun inadequacy
Member Meronyms of noun inadequacy
Substance Meronyms of noun inadequacy
Part Meronyms of noun inadequacy
Meronyms of noun inadequacy
Holonyms of noun inadequacy
Attributes of noun inadequacy
Derived Forms of noun inadequacy
Domain of noun inadequacy
Domain Terms of noun inadequacy
Familiarity of noun inadequacy
inadequacy used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun inadequacy
3 senses of inadequacy
Sense 1
insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
> amount
=> positivity, positiveness
=> negativity, negativeness
=> critical mass
=> quantity
=> increase, increment
=> decrease, decrement
=> smallness
=> insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
=> margin
=> number, figure
Sense 2
insufficiency, inadequacy
> failing, weakness
=> insufficiency, inadequacy
=> fatigue
=> flaw
Sense 3
inadequacy, inadequateness
> unsatisfactoriness
=> inadequacy, inadequateness
=> perishability, perishableness
=> unacceptability, unacceptableness
Meronyms of noun inadequacy
3 senses of inadequacy
Holonyms of noun inadequacy
Grep of noun inadequacy
inadequacy
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