A failing or deficiency.

synonym: defect.

Roget 304: shortcoming, failure; falling short etc. v.; default, defalcation; leeway; labor in vain, no go.    incompleteness etc. 53; imperfection etc. 651; insufficiency etc. 640; noncompletion etc. 730; failure etc. 732.    ... show more

Roget 640: insufficiency; inadequacy, inadequateness; incompetence etc. (impotence) 158; deficiency etc. (incompleteness) 53; imperfection etc. 651; shortcoming etc. 304; paucity; stint; scantiness etc. (smallness) 32; none to spare, bare subsistence.    scarcity, dearth; want, need, lack, poverty, exigency; inanition, starvation, famine, drought.    dole, mite, pittance; short allowance, short commons; half rations; banyan day.    emptiness, poorness etc. adj.; depletion, vacancy, flaccidity; ebb tide; low water; a beggarly account of empty boxes" [Romeo and Juliet]; indigence etc. 804; insolvency etc. (nonpayment) 808.    ... show more

Roget 730: noncompletion, nonfulfillment; shortcoming etc. 304; incompleteness etc. 53; drawn battle, drawn game; work of Penelope.    nonperformance, inexecution^†; neglect etc. 460.    ... show more

Roget 53: incompleteness etc. adj.; deficiency, short measure; shortcoming etc. 304; insufficiency etc. 640; imperfection etc. 651; immaturity etc. (nonpreparation) 674; half measures.    [part wanting] defect, deficit, defalcation, omission; caret; shortage; interval etc. 198; break etc. (discontinuity) 70; noncompletion etc. 730; missing link.    missing piece, missing part, gap, hole, lacuna.    ... show more

Roget 34: inferiority, minority, subordinacy; shortcoming, deficiency; minimum; smallness etc. 32; imperfection; lower quality, lower worth.    [personal inferiority] commonalty etc. 876.    ... show more

Roget 28: inequality; disparity, imparity; odds; difference etc. 15; unevenness; inclination of the balance, partiality, bias, weight; shortcoming; casting weight, make-weight; superiority etc. 33; inferiority etc. 34; inequation^†.    ... show more

Roget 651: imperfection; imperfectness etc. adj.; deficiency; inadequacy etc. (insufficiency) 640; peccancy etc. (badness) 649^†; immaturity etc. 674.    fault, defect, weak point; screw loose; flaw etc. (break) 70; gap etc. 198; twist etc. 243; taint, attainder; bar sinister, hole in one's coat; blemish etc. 848; weakness etc. 160; half blood; shortcoming etc. 304; drawback; seamy side.    mediocrity; no great shakes, no great catch; not much to boast of; one-horse shay.    ... show more

Dutch: tekortkoming
Polish: wadliwość, defekt, skaza