Defenition of the word deficiency

• Defenition of the word deficiency

  • A shortage or absence of what is needed.
  • lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
  • 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 of an adequate quantity or number
  • the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

Synonyms for the word deficiency

• • inadequacy
  • insufficiency
  • lack
  • want

Hyponyms for the word deficiency

• • absence
  • dearth
  • deficit
  • exiguity
  • famine
  • leanness
  • meagerness
  • meagreness
  • mineral deficiency
  • poorness
  • scantiness
  • scantness
  • scarceness
  • scarcity
  • shortage
  • shortfall
  • shortness
  • slenderness
  • stringency
  • tightness

Hypernyms for the word deficiency

• • amount
  • demand
  • need

Antonyms for the word deficiency

• • adequacy
  • sufficiency

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