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What does inadequacy mean?

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Noun
  1. The state of being inadequate.
  2. A shortage of required material.
  3. A lack of competence or ability.
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Women who have a sense of personal inadequacy may project their views about themselves to a lack of trust and derogation of women in general.
Her readiness to drop everything for him offered constancy to a man prone to bouts of introspection and feelings of inadequacy.
The fact is that our house prices are a direct result of the artificial shortage caused by planning inadequacy.
He saw that if a woman rejected him, it was because of her fears rather than because of his inadequacy or unlovability.
The Wallacean shortfall refers primarily to the inadequacy of our knowledge of the geographical distributions of species.
That not-unique pattern points to the inadequacy of much current nomenclature about part-time or adjunct faculty versus tenured professors.

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