Deficiency

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  • noun. The quality or condition of being deficient; incompleteness or inadequacy.
  • noun. A lack or shortage, especially of something essential to health.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state of being deficient; a lack or failing; a falling short; incompleteness, as of intelligence, attainments, or performance.
  • noun. That in which a person or thing is deficient; an imperfection.
  • noun. Lack of the necessary quantity, number, etc.; inadequacy; insufficiency: as, a deficiency of troops; a deficiency of blood.
  • noun. Absence; loss.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.
  • noun. the amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Inadequacy or incompleteness.
  • noun. An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. lack of an adequate quantity or number
  • noun. the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
    • Word Usage
    "It has been demonstrated that a blood protein deficiency is the cause of this inherited illness."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    excess  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    efficiency  immunodeficiency  inefficiency  proficiency  self-sufficiency  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    abnormality  complication  defect  deficit  difficulty  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    absence  adulteration  arrearage  arrestment  baseness  
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