deficiency

deficiency

noun

Definition of DEFICIENCY

a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number <there is a deficiency of fresh food in the diet of many of the working poor>

Synonyms crunch, dearth, deficit, drought (also drouth), failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, lacuna, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want

Related Words absence, omission; meagerness, poorness, skimpiness; necessity, need, privation

Near Antonyms bountifulness, copiousness; excess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplus

Antonyms abundance, adequacy, amplitude, opulence, plenitude, plenty, sufficiency, wealth