deficiency
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deficiency
- /dɪˈfɪʃənsi/
Where it comes from
From deficient + -cy. Compare Latin dēficientia.
noun deficiencies
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Inadequacy or incompleteness.
The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
Similar: lack, lacking, lackingness, want · Opposite: sufficiency, plenty, plentitude, plenitude, excess, surfeit
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An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
One of academia’s deficiencies is that, though its lecture halls and graduate schools are replete with women, its higher echelons are not. Often, this is seen as a phenomenon specific to the sciences. … In fact, the disparity applies to the whole grove. Another report from 2006, by the American Asso
Similar: lack, lacking, want, shortage · Opposite: sufficiency, excess, surfeit
- The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
- The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: insufficiency, inadequacy, lack, want, deficient, deficit, shortcoming, insufficient, inadequate, shortage, failure, inaction, incompetence, underemployment, fault, defect
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noun inadequacy or incompleteness
| 中文 | 不足之處 /不足之处 bùzúzhīchù |
|---|---|
| हिन्दी | अभाव abhāv, कमी kamī |
| Kiswahili | athari |
| Português | carência, deficiência, escassez, falta |
| Français | déficience |
| Italiano | deficienza |
| Română | deficiență, lipsă, insuficiență |
| Русский | недоста́ток nedostátok, поро́к porók, неполноце́нность nepolnocénnostʹ, дефе́кт defékt |
noun insufficiency
| Español | deficiencia, déficit |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 缺少 quēshǎo, 欠缺 qiànquē, 不足之處 /不足之处 bùzúzhīchù |
| हिन्दी | अभाव abhāv, कमी kamī |
| Kiswahili | athari |
| Português | deficiência |
| Français | déficience, carence |
| Deutsch | Mangel |
| Italiano | deficienza |
| Ελληνικά | ανεπάρκεια anepárkeia |
| Română | lipsă (de), insuficiență |
| Русский | нехва́тка nexvátka, дефици́т deficít |
Talk about this word "deficiency." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/deficiency. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. deficiency. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/deficiency "deficiency." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/deficiency.Cite this
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title = {deficiency},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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