inadequateness

They may not point to the right mode of meeting inadequateness, but they do point to the existence and consciousness of it.

Its imperfection or inadequateness in size and method I knew, but for the writing part of it, I was fully satisfied.

She—perhaps McTeague as well—felt that there was a certain inadequateness about the ceremony.

It does not apply to a will which is infected with inadequateness of self expression.