| NOUN | state | deficiency, lack, want | the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable |
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| attribute | deficiency, insufficiency, inadequacy | lack of an adequate quantity or number |
| Sounds | dihfih'shahnsiy | |
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| Rhymes | absorbency ... Yangtze: 255 rhymes with siy... | |
| Meaning | The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable. | |
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| Example | "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions" | |
| Synonyms | lack, want | |
| Narrower | absence | The state of being absent |
| dearth, famine, shortage | An acute insufficiency | |
| deficit | A deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning | |
| mineral deficiency | lack of a mineral micronutrient that is essential for normal nutrition or metabolism | |
| shortness | The condition of being short of something | |
| stringency, tightness | A state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage / shortage of credit | |
| Broader | need, demand | A condition requiring relief |
| Spanish | carencia, carestía, deficiencia, deseo, escasez, falta | |
| Catalan | carència, carestia, escassedat, escassetat, falta, manca, mancança, pobresa | |
| Adjectives | deficient | falling ... / falling short of some prescribed norm |
| Meaning | lack of an adequate quantity or number. | |
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| Synonyms | insufficiency, inadequacy | |
| Narrower | deficit, shortage, shortfall | The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required |
| meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity | The quality of being meager | |
| scarcity, scarceness | A small and inadequate amount | |
| slenderness | The quality of being slight or inadequate | |
| Broader | amount | The relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion |
| Opposite | sufficiency, adequacy | The quality of being sufficient for the end in view |
| Spanish | carencia, deficiencia, insuficiencia, pobreza | |
| Catalan | deficiència, dèficit, insuficiència, manca | |
| Adjectives | deficient | of a quantity not able to fulfill / fulfill a need or requirement |
| deficient | inadequate in amount or degree | |
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