About The Word Deficiency
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Deficiency
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What's The Definition Of Deficiency?
[n] lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
[n] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Deficiency: inadequacy | insufficiency | lack | want Related Terms | Find terms related to Deficiency: absence | adulteration | arrearage | arrestment | baseness | beggary | blemish | break | bug | callowness | catch | crack | dearth | defalcation | default | defect | defectibility | defection | defectiveness | deficit | demerit | deprivation | dereliction | destitution | discontinuity | drawback | drought | erroneousness | failing | failure | fallibility | famine | fault | faultiness | faute | fewness | flaw | foible | frailty | gap | hiatus | hole | immaturity | impairment | imperfection | impoverishment | impurity | inaccuracy | inadequacy | inadequateness | incompetence | incompleteness | incompletion | inexactitude | inexactness | infirmity | insufficiency | interval | kink | lack | lacuna | little problem | littleness | maladroitness | meanness | mediocrity | miscarriage | missing link | need | neglect | omission | outage | patchiness | pettiness | privation | problem | rift | scantiness | scrappiness | shabbiness | short measure | short weight | shortage | shortcoming | shortfall | sin | sketchiness | smallness | snag | something missing | starvation | subnormality | taint | triviality | ullage | underage | underdevelopment | undevelopment | unevenness | unperfectedness | unskillfulness | unsoundness | vulgarity | vulnerable place | want | wantage | weak link | weak point | weakness See Also | absence | amount | dearth | deficit | demand | exiguity | famine | meagerness | meagreness | mineral deficiency | need | poorness | scantiness | scantness | scarceness | scarcity | shortage | shortage | shortfall | stringency | tightness Deficiency In Webster's Dictionary \De*fi"cien*cy\, n.; pl. {Deficiencies}. [See
{Deficient}.]
The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure;
imperfection; shortcoming; defect. ``A deficiency of blood.''
--Arbuthnot.
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his
deficiencies made him the ridicule of his
contemporaries. --Buckle.
{Deficiency of a curve} (Geom.), the amount by which the
number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum
for curves of the same degree.
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