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deficiency


noun
1. the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable (Freq. 6)
- 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
Syn:
lack, want
Derivationally related forms:
want (for: want), deficient, lack (for: lack)
Hypernyms:
need, demand
Hyponyms:
absence, dearth, famine, shortage, deficit,
mineral deficiency, shortness, stringency, tightness
2. lack of an adequate quantity or number (Freq. 2)
- the inadequacy of unemployment benefits
Syn:
insufficiency, inadequacy
Ant:
adequacy (for: inadequacy), sufficiency (for: insufficiency)
Derivationally related forms:
deficient, insufficient (for: insufficiency)
Hypernyms:
amount
Hyponyms:
meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness,
scantness, exiguity, deficit, shortage, shortfall, scarcity,
scarceness, slenderness

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