#deficiency__insufficiency__inadequacy lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
exclusion: adequacy
supertype: amount how much of something is available; "an adequate amount of food for four people"
subtype: meagerness__meagreness__poorness__scantiness__scantness__scantnes the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
subtype: sparseness__spareness__sparenes the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
subtype: shortage__deficit the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
subtype: oxygen_deficit temporary oxygen shortage in cells resulting from strenuous exercise
subtype: scarcity__scarceness a small and inadequate amount
subtype: paucity__dearth an insufficient quantity or number
subtype: rareness__rarity__infrequency noteworthy scarcity
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