ανεπάρκεια — meaning in English
aneparkeia
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English meaning
- dearth noun A serious shortage or scarcity of something.
- deficiency noun A lack or shortage of something necessary, especially for health.
- failure noun The state of not achieving a desired or intended result.
- insufficiency noun The lack of sufficiency: a shortage, the state of having or being not enough (of something).
- penury noun Extreme need or want; destitution, poverty; (countable) an instance of this.
Senses
ανεπάρκεια is used for these senses in English:
- dearth (transitive, dated, obsolete) To cause or produce a scarcity in something.
- deficiency (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
- failure (pathology) A condition in which a specified organ does not function well enough to support life.
- insufficiency The lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.
- penury (countable, now, chiefly, poetic) Often followed by of: a lack of something; a dearth, a scarcity.