Absence vs Insufficiency - What's the difference?
absence | insufficiency | Synonyms |
A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; the period of being away.
* (rfdate) (w) 2:12
Failure to be present where one is expected, wanted, or needed; nonattendance; deficiency.
* (rfdate) - Kent
Lack; deficiency; nonexistence.
Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind).
* (rfdate), (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
* 1824-1829? , (w), (Imaginary Conversations)
(medical) Temporary loss or disruption of consciousness, with sudden onset and recovery, and common in epilepsy.
(fencing) Lack of contact between blades.
The lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.
Absence is a synonym of insufficiency.
As nouns the difference between absence and insufficiency
is that absence is a state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; the period of being away while insufficiency is the lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.absence
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Alternative forms
*Noun
(en-noun)- Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence .
- In the absence of conventional law.
- Reflecting on the little absences and distractions of mankind.
- To conquer that abstraction which is called absence .
Derived terms
* absence makes the heart grow fonderAntonyms
* (state of being away) presence * existence, possession, sufficiencyReferences
insufficiency
English
Noun
(insufficiencies)- The troops went hungry because of the insufficiency of their supplies.