deficiency

de·fi·cien·cy  (d-fshn-s)

n. pl. de·fi·cien·cies

1. The quality or condition of being deficient; incompleteness or inadequacy.

2. A lack or shortage, especially of something essential to health; an insufficiency: a nutritional deficiency.

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deficiency

Noun

pl -cies

1. the state of being deficient

2. a lack or shortage

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	deficiency - the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" lack, want absence - the state of being absent; "he was surprised by the absence of any explanation" need, demand - a condition requiring relief; "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs" dearth, famine, shortage - an acute insufficiency deficit - a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits" mineral deficiency - lack of a mineral micronutrient that is essential for normal nutrition or metabolism shortness - the condition of being short of something; "there was no shortness of money"; "can cause shortness of breath" stringency, tightness - a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
	2.	deficiency - lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" inadequacy, insufficiency amount - the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion; "an adequate amount of food for four people" exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness, poorness - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot deficit, shortage, shortfall - the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit" scarceness, scarcity - a small and inadequate amount slenderness - the quality of being slight or inadequate; "he knew the slenderness of my wallet"; "the slenderness of the chances that anything would be done"; "the slenderness of the evidence"

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deficiency

noun 1. lack, want, deficit, absence, shortage, deprivation, inadequacy, scarcity, dearth, privation, insufficiency, scantiness << OPPOSITE sufficiency

noun 2. failing, fault, weakness, defect, flaw, drawback, shortcoming, imperfection, frailty, demerit

Translations

deficiency [dɪˈfɪʃənsɪ] n (= lack) → falta;

(COMM) → déficit m (= defect); defecto

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deficiency [dɪˈfɪʃənsɪ] n (= lack) → insuffisance f: (Med) → carence f (= flaw); faiblesse f;

(Comm) → déficit m, découvert m

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deficiency [dɪˈfɪʃənsɪ] n → Mangel m;

(defect) → Unzulänglichkeit f;

(deficit) → Defizit nt

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deficiency [dɪˈfɪʃənsɪ] n → deficienza; carenza;

(COMM) → ammanco