inadequacy

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For males it carries the sting of naivet and inadequacy.

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Quick take

lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of inadequacy gathered in one view.

noun

lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"

noun

a lack of competence; "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"; "juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents"

noun

unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for inadequacy.

noun

lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"

noun

a lack of competence; "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"; "juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents"

noun

unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate

Example sentences

For males it carries the sting of naivet and inadequacy.

I found his story more sad than funny, this guy clearly had some inadequacy issues.

When feelings of failure, inadequacy, and burnout arise, I pick up my guitar and go do an open mic night.

Feelings of inadequacy will motivate you to accomplish more.

Many dot com failures were due to inadequacy of the internet's infrastructure.

Hooray for using bigger numbers and a nonstandard unit to hide inadequacy!Does Heroku use req/min throughout their service?

They are, generally speaking, still intimidated by the same fear of inadequacy that dominated their campus when they were undergrads.

In freenet at least there is one significant inadequacy that you must commit your resources to supply others with material you strongly disagree with.

Although I'm a perfectionist and I believe a lot of these issues should be addressed, the tumblr itself bothers me. It's the logical culmination of Fail culture where hipsters in armchairs laugh at the inadequacy of everything while producing nothing.

The inadequacy of a darknet is its uncensorability?

These high-achievers continue to accomplish so much because they constantly motivate themselves with thoughts of inadequacy.

The term is so vague as to be utterly meaningless, and is usually a signal that we're really talking about someone's insecurities, their feelings of inadequacy, or their passive-aggressive megalomania.

Would you tell a homeless person to "just make more money"?As a matter of fact, telling this to someone whose depression has a large social disconnect component to it may trigger further feelings of inadequacy via the mental model of "I'm the only one who seems to be incapable of doing what is obviously so easy to this person, and everybody else.