inadequateness

a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number <the inadequateness of our emergency food supplies should have been obvious> Synonyms crunch, dearth, deficit, drought (also drouth), failure, famine, inadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency, lack, lacuna, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, wantRelated Words absence, omission; meagerness, poorness, skimpiness; necessity, need, privationNear Antonyms bountifulness, copiousness; excess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplusAntonyms abundance, adequacy, amplitude, opulence, plenitude, plenty, sufficiency, wealth