deficiency

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noun

1. the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable (Freq. 6)
- 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, want
• Derivationally related forms:
want (for: want), deficient, lack (for: lack)
• Hypernyms:
need, demand
• Hyponyms:
absence, dearth, famine, shortage, deficit,
mineral deficiency, shortness, stringency, tightness
2. lack of an adequate quantity or number (Freq. 2)
- the inadequacy of unemployment benefits
• Syn:
insufficiency, inadequacy
• Ant:
adequacy (for: inadequacy), sufficiency (for: insufficiency)
• Derivationally related forms:
deficient, insufficient (for: insufficiency)
• Hypernyms:
amount
• Hyponyms:
meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness,
scantness, exiguity, deficit, shortage, shortfall, scarcity,
scarceness, slenderness

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  insufficiency, inadequacy, lack, want
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  sufficiency, adequacy