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Insufficiency vs Disqualification - What's the difference?

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Insufficiency is a related term of disqualification.


As nouns the difference between insufficiency and disqualification

is that insufficiency is the lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy while disqualification is the act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices.

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)

    disqualification

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices.
  • That which disqualifies; that which incapacitates or makes unfit; as, conviction of crime is a disqualification of a person for office; sickness is a disqualification for labor.
  • (label): The act of being forbidden from further play in a basketball game due to the accumulation of too many personal fouls.