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deficiency

noun

1 deficiency

The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable:
— Water is the critical deficiency in desert regions.

synonyms: lack, want.

Roget 945: vice; evil-doing, evil courses; wrongdoing; wickedness, viciousness etc. adj.; iniquity, peccability, demerit; sin, Adam; old Adam, ... show more

Roget 640: insufficiency; inadequacy, inadequateness; incompetence etc. (impotence) 158; deficiency etc. (incompleteness) 53; imperfection etc. 651; ... show more

Roget 34: inferiority, minority, subordinacy; shortcoming, deficiency; minimum; smallness etc. 32; imperfection; lower quality, lower worth.    [personal inferiority] commonalty ... show more

Dutch: onvolkomenheid, ontoereikendheid, krapte, gemis, deficiëntie, gebrek, tekort
Polish: brak

2 deficiency

Lack of an adequate quantity or number.

synonyms: inadequacy, insufficiency.

Roget 651: imperfection; imperfectness etc. adj.; deficiency; inadequacy etc. (insufficiency) 640; peccancy etc. (badness) 649; immaturity ... show more

Roget 53: incompleteness etc. adj.; deficiency, short measure; shortcoming etc. 304; insufficiency etc. 640; imperfection etc. 651; ... show more

Dutch: slapte
Polish: niedostateczność, niewystarczalność


Moby thesaurus: absence, adulteration, arrearage, arrestment, baseness, beggary, blemish, break, bug, callowness, catch, crack, dearth, defalcation, default, defect, defectibility, defection, defectiveness, deficit ... show more.

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