'Deficiency' definitions:
Definition of 'deficiency'
From: WordNet
noun
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" [syn: lack, deficiency, want]
noun
Lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" [syn: insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency] [ant: adequacy, sufficiency]
Definition of 'Deficiency'
From: GCIDE
- Deficiency \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. [1913 Webster]
- [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. --Buckle. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'deficiency'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Deficiency'
- Deficience,
- Deficiencies,
- Deficient,
- Deficiency of a curve,
- Deficient number,
- deficiency disease,
- lactase deficiency,
- mass deficiency,
- mental deficiency,
- mineral deficiency,
- vitamin deficiency,
- zinc deficiency,
- Deficient-ly,
- color vision deficiency,
- colour vision deficiency,
- deficient inferior substandard,
- iron deficiency anaemia,
- iron deficiency anemia,
- acquired immune deficiency syndrome,
- vitamin-deficiency diet