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deficiency

Nouns

• (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
  lack, want,
• (n) lack of an adequate quantity or number
  • the inadequacy of unemployment benefits
  inadequacy, insufficiency,

Synonyms

lack want inadequacy insufficiency

Antonyms

adequacy sufficiency

Words of close approximity