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Inability vs Insufficiency - What's the difference?

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Inability is a related term of insufficiency.


As nouns the difference between inability and insufficiency

is that inability is lack of the ability to do something; incapability while insufficiency is the lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.

inability

English

Noun

(inabilities)
  • lack of the ability to do something; incapability
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille'' (in ''The Guardian , 26 November 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/nov/26/arsenal-marseille-match-report-champions-league]
  • The Premier League leaders did what many people thought was beyond them in their last European excursion, at the home of Borussia Dortmund, and they made light work of overcoming Marseille on a night when the one-sidedness was not reflected by their inability to add to Jack Wilshere's two goals.

    insufficiency

    English

    Noun

    (insufficiencies)
  • The lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.
  • The troops went hungry because of the insufficiency of their supplies.

    Synonyms

    * unsufficiency (obsolete)