insuffisance
French edit
Etymology edit
From in- + suffisance or insuffisant + -ance.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
insuffisance f (plural insuffisances)
- shortfall; shortcoming; insufficiency
- Near-synonym: défaut
- (pathology) failure (condition in which a specified organ does not function well enough to support life)
Further reading edit
- “insuffisance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.