deficiency en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /dɪˈfɪʃənsi/
Etymology
From deficient + -cy. Compare Latin dēficientia.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
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(countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
One of academia’s deficiencies is that, though its lecture halls and graduate schools are replete with women, its higher echelons are not. Often, this is seen as a phenomenon specific to the sciences. … In fact, the disparity applies to the whole grove. Another report from 2006, by the American Association of University Professors, found the same ratio in the faculties of arts, humanities and social science, too.
2013 August 31, “Promotion and self-promotion”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8851:
- (countable, uncountable) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
- (countable, uncountable) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| deficiencies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
plentitude · excess · excess · sufficiency · plenitude · surfeit · surfeit · sufficiency · plenty
Deriveds
acquired immune deficiency syndrome · magnetic field deficiency syndrome · bideficiency · arylsulfatase A deficiency · indeficiency · immune deficiency · deficiency letter · glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency · G6PD deficiency · pseudodeficiency · phosphodeficiency · ARSA deficiency · boron deficiency · haplodeficiency · deficiency disease · ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency · immunodeficiency · hematodeficiency · iron deficiency · gay-related immune deficiency · hyperdeficiency · antideficiency · curve deficiency
Synonyms
want · lack · lacking · shortage · lackingness · lacking · want · lack
Translations (101)
hi कमी (insufficiency) · ro insuficiență (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ml കുറവ് (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ml കുറവ് (insufficiency) · el ανεπάρκεια (insufficiency) · ka უკმარობა (insufficiency) · bg дефицит (insufficiency) · fa کاستی (inadequacy or incompleteness) · hi अभाव (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ro lipsă (de) (insufficiency) · cmn 欠缺 (insufficiency) · fi alijäämä (insufficiency) · ga easpa (insufficiency) · ka უკმარისობა (inadequacy or incompleteness) · fr déficience (insufficiency) · ota نقصان (insufficiency) · pl niedobór (insufficiency) · ga easpacht (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ka დეფიციტი (inadequacy or incompleteness) · de Mangel (insufficiency) · pl niedobór (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ga uireasa (inadequacy or incompleteness) · hu hiányosság (inadequacy or incompleteness) · mi kōpaka (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ka ნაკლებობა (insufficiency) · sw athari (insufficiency) · tl kakulangan (inadequacy or incompleteness) · hi अभाव (insufficiency) · pt escassez (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ga díothacht (inadequacy or incompleteness) · fr carence (insufficiency) · cmn 缺少 (insufficiency) · cmn 不足之處 /不足之处 (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ro deficiență (inadequacy or incompleteness) · es déficit (insufficiency) · pl deficyt (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ml അപര്യാപ്തത (insufficiency) · fi vajaus (insufficiency) · es deficiencia (insufficiency) · ml പോരായ്മ (insufficiency) · ru неполноце́нность (inadequacy or incompleteness) · fr déficience (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ka დანაკლისი (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ka დეფექტურობა (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ru нехва́тка (insufficiency) · nl tekort (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ia deficientia (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ru дефе́кт (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ru недоста́ток (inadequacy or incompleteness) · id kekurangan (inadequacy or incompleteness) · fi vajaus (inadequacy or incompleteness) · pt deficiência (insufficiency) · ro lipsă (inadequacy or incompleteness) · fi puute (inadequacy or incompleteness) · grc ἔνδεια (insufficiency) · ga easnamh (insufficiency) · ky таңсык (insufficiency) · mi takarepatanga (inadequacy or incompleteness) · bg недостиг (insufficiency) · pt falta (inadequacy or incompleteness) · fi puutteellisuus (inadequacy or incompleteness) · fi vaje (insufficiency) · ca deficiència (inadequacy or incompleteness) · mi kāhoretanga (insufficiency) · ka არასრულფასოვნება (inadequacy or incompleteness) · tl depisyensiya (inadequacy or incompleteness) · gl pobreza (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ka უკმარისობა (insufficiency) · cs nedostatek (insufficiency) · sw athari (inadequacy or incompleteness) · hu hiány (insufficiency) · it deficienza (insufficiency) · gd easbhaidh (insufficiency) · got 𐍅𐌰𐌽 (inadequacy or incompleteness) · it deficienza (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ro insuficiență (insufficiency) · mi tarepatanga (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ru дефици́т (insufficiency) · hi कमी (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ca dèficit (insufficiency) · da mangel (inadequacy or incompleteness) · cs nedostatečnost (inadequacy or incompleteness) · mi kōpakatanga (insufficiency) · ru поро́к (inadequacy or incompleteness) · sv brist (insufficiency) · ml പോരായ്മ (inadequacy or incompleteness) · txb menki (inadequacy or incompleteness) · da utilstrækkelighed (inadequacy or incompleteness) · nb utilstrekkelighet (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ka ნაკლოვანება (inadequacy or incompleteness) · bg недостатък (inadequacy or incompleteness) · fi vaje (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ms kekurangan (inadequacy or incompleteness) · nb mangel (inadequacy or incompleteness) · cmn 不足之處 /不足之处 (insufficiency) · nl tekort (insufficiency) · grc ἔλλειψις (inadequacy or incompleteness) · ga uireasa (insufficiency) · la dēficientia (inadequacy or incompleteness) · pt carência (inadequacy or incompleteness) · pt deficiência (inadequacy or incompleteness)