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Synonyms & Antonyms 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 for deficiency
- crunch,
- dearth,
- deficit,
- drought
- (also drouth),
- failure,
- famine,
- inadequacy,
- inadequateness,
- insufficiency,
- lack,
- lacuna,
- paucity,
- pinch,
- poverty,
- scantiness,
- scarceness,
- scarcity,
- shortage,
- undersupply,
- want
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The first known use of deficiency was in 1603
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