the.com/insufficiency
The gap between what you have and what the situation is rude enough to require.
means The state of not being enough — falling short of what's needed in amount, quality, or ability.
from Built from the Latin prefix 'in-' (not) plus 'sufficientem,' the present participle of 'sufficere' — to suffice, literally 'to put under' or 'supply' (sub- 'under' + facere 'to make, do'). The idea is almost physical: something placed underneath to support a load. When that underpinning fails to hold, you get insufficiency — a support that was supposed to be 'put under' the need but wasn't enough to bear it.
- legal use
- describes evidence too weak to convict
- medical use
- an organ quietly failing at its one job
- etymology
- from sub plus facere, literally not making enough
- vs scarcity
- scarcity is the world lacking, this is you lacking