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plural of deficiency
Synonyms & Antonyms of deficiencies
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 for deficiencies
- crunches,
- dearths,
- deficits,
- droughts
- (also drouths),
- failures,
- famines,
- inadequacies,
- insufficiencies,
- lacks,
- lacunae
- (also lacunas),
- paucities,
- pinches,
- poverties,
- scarcities,
- shortages,
- undersupplies,
- wants
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