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Synonyms for Deficiency
dɪˈfɪʃ ən side·fi·cien·cy

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Wiktionary1.0 / 1 vote

  1. deficiencynoun

    Antonyms:
    excess

  2. deficiencynoun

    Antonyms:
    excess

  3. deficiencynoun

    Antonyms:
    excess

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. deficiency

    Synonyms:
    want, imperfection, lack, shortcoming

    Antonyms:
    fullness, abundance

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. lack, deficiency, wantnoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    neediness, need, deprivation, wishing, wish, want, privation, lack, deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency

  2. insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiencynoun

    lack of an adequate quantity or number

    "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"

    Synonyms:
    lack, inadequacy, deficiency, want, inadequateness, insufficiency

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Dictionary of English Synonymes4.0 / 1 vote

  1. deficiencynoun

    Synonyms:
    want, lack, defectiveness, insufficiency, scantiness, shortness, meagreness, dearth, scarcity, DEFICIT

  2. deficiencynoun

    Synonyms:
    failing, failure, frailty, infirmity, imperfection, foible, fault, error, weakness, weak side, blind side

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. deficiencynoun

    Synonyms:
    inadequacy, insufficiency, shortage, meagreness

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How to use Deficiency in a sentence?

  1. Charles Czeisler:

    Once you've paid back your deficiency, you can't really oversleep, you can be in bed for 14 hours but you're only really sleeping for eight hours.

  2. Nazareno Paolocci:

    BDNF deficiency may not cause full-blown disease, but it could be the proverbial straw that leads to a 'broken heart,'.

  3. Isaac D?Israeli:

    Is a preface exquisitely written? No literary morsel is more delicious. Is the author inveterately dull? It is a kind of preparatory information, which may be very useful. It argues a deficiency of taste to turn over an elaborate preface unread: for it is the attar of the author?s roses, every drop distilled at an immense cost. It is the reason of the reasoning, and the folly of the foolish.

  4. Douglas Noel Adams:

    My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.

  5. David Shulkin:

    When there's time to look back upon the situation and we dissect the response, I think the big deficiency is going to be the fact that we were not prepared for testing.


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