#deficiency__insufficiency__inadequacy  lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
  exclusion:  adequacy
  supertype:  amount  how much of something is available; "an adequate amount of food for four people"
  subtype:  meagerness__meagreness__poorness__scantiness__scantness__scantnes  the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
     subtype:  sparseness__spareness__sparenes  the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
  subtype:  shortage__deficit  the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
     subtype:  oxygen_deficit  temporary oxygen shortage in cells resulting from strenuous exercise
  subtype:  scarcity__scarceness  a small and inadequate amount
     subtype:  paucity__dearth  an insufficient quantity or number
     subtype:  rareness__rarity__infrequency  noteworthy scarcity

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