deficiency
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(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" |
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Synonyms: lack, want |
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Related Words: absence, dearth, demand, famine, need, shortage, sideropenia, stringency, tightness |
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(noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" |
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Synonyms: inadequacy, insufficiency |
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Related Words: amount, deficit, exiguity, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, shortfall |
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