sense of inadequacy

collocation in English

meaningsofsenseandinadequacy

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sense
noun
uk
/sens/us
/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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inadequacy
noun
uk
/ɪˈnæd.ɪ.kwə.si/us
/ɪˈnæd.ə.kwə.si/
the fact that something is not good enough or is too small ...
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(Definition ofsenseandinadequacyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsense of inadequacy

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The speaker in ex. 7 explains that her doctors' view of things differed from her own, and that they imposed on her asenseofinadequacyand failure.
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It may be a sense of shame, asenseofinadequacy.
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I know thesenseofinadequacy, because one cannot do what one thinks one should do in society.
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It is better to do that than to develop asenseofinadequacythrough repeated failures.
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No one addresses these problems without a total and devastatingsenseofinadequacy.
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They should remember the anguish, loneliness and insecurity, thesenseofinadequacyand the mental pain of childlessness.
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They are so discouraged by the inadequate and bad schooling, and by theirsenseofinadequacyin themselves, that they just do not persist with education.
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They further argue that ads depict the interests and lifestyles of the elite as natural; cultivating a deepsenseofinadequacyamong viewers.
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A lack of prospects and a strongsenseofinadequacyonly darken his mood.
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It is characterised by a prevailing and seemingly permanentsenseofinadequacy, despondency, lack of vitality, sadness and hopelessness, shared by a high proportion of the members of a collectivity.
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Then she will meet the true love, but it will not cure all the thoughts of the girl and hersenseofinadequacyto the world.
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