Entry Word: deficiency

Function: noun

Meaning: a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number <there was a deficiency of fresh food in the house>

Synonyms dearth, deficit, failure, famine, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, want

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

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

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