deficiency - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

lack of an adequate quantity or number

Synonyms

• deficiency
• inadequacy
• insufficiency

More generic

• amount

More specific

• deficit
• exiguity
• leanness
• meagerness
• meagreness
• poorness
• scantiness
• scantness
• scarceness
• scarcity
• shortage
• shortfall
• slenderness

Noun

the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

Synonyms

• deficiency
• lack
• want

More generic

• demand
• need

More specific

• absence
• dearth
• deficit
• famine
• mineral deficiency
• shortage
• shortness
• stringency
• tightness

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