insufficiency
noun
deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy.
self-insufficiency
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a word derived from
insufficiency.
Example Sentences
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It was as though a sudden terror blinded him, as though a spectre of guilt suddenly loomed up out of all the black self-insufficiency of the last few years, his years of married life.
From Dr. Adriaan by Louis Couperus
Oh, world of feeling born just of the emptiness of self-insufficiency, because self, alas, was never sufficient, because something was always lacking and he did not know what!...
From Dr. Adriaan by Louis Couperus
She would not have understood, she would have refused to understand that there was no blame but only self-insufficiency and inconsistency of soul, in silent antagonism and antipathy, because Addie felt himself to be two.
From Dr. Adriaan by Louis Couperus
Now that he had no more need for action, waves of indeterminate darkness surged and floated all around and within him, bearing on their crests the mood of self-insufficiency.
From Dr. Adriaan by Louis Couperus
He saw suddenly, in a sort of despair, that the only answer to the question which he sometimes had to ask in vague, black self-insufficiency was the assenting yes, yes, yes!...
From Dr. Adriaan by Louis Couperus
