n. The state or quality of being inadequate; inadequacy; insufficiency; incompleteness.
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n. unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate
Word Usage
"One often hears from both younger and older citizens of Ukraine that democracy does not properly work there because of the low political culture, moral inadequateness or similar deficiencies of Kiev's political elite."