Deficiency

Definition: Deficiency

Deficiency

Noun

1. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost".

2. Lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "deficiency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Deficiency \De*fi"cien*cy\, noun; plural Deficiencies. [See Deficient.]. (references)

Finance

Public Administration

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Deficiency

Imperfection

Noun: imperfection; imperfectness; Adjective:; deficiency; inadequacy; (insufficiency); peccancy; (badness); immaturity.

Incompleteness

Noun: incompleteness; Adjective: deficiency, short measure; shortcoming; insufficiency; imperfection; immaturity; (nonpreparation); half measures.

Inferiority

Noun: inferiority, minority, subordinacy; shortcoming, deficiency; minimum; smallness; imperfection; lower quality, lower worth.

Insufficiency

Noun: insufficiency; inadequacy, inadequateness; incompetence; (impotence); deficiency; (incompleteness); imperfection; shortcoming; paucity; stint; scantiness; (smallness); none to spare, bare subsistence.

Requirement

Desideratum; (desire); want; (deficiency).

Vice

Infirmity; weakness; Adjective: weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection; error; weak side; foible; failing, failure; crying sin, besetting sin; defect, deficiency; cloven foot.

Weakness

Anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood.

Crosswords: Deficiency

Books

• Ellis' Handbook of Mental Deficiency, Psychological Theory and Research (reference)

• Iodine Deficiency in Europe: A Continuing Concern (NATO Asi Series A, Life Sciences, Vol 241) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Journal Of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes - Jaids (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Note the bowed legs and enlarged right wrist. Nutritional Rickets is a condition in which children's bones are too soft, and do not develop properly due to a deficiency of vitamin D. Credit: CDC.

Female suffering from Beriberi caused by thiamine deficiency. Credit: CDC.

Grade II Goiter from iodine deficiency. Credit: CDC.

Bitot's Spots caused by vitamin A deficiency. Credit: CDC.

Scorbutic-type gums due to Scurvy caused by vitamin C deficiency. Credit: CDC.

Prussian blue staining for iron particles, which reveals little or no stainable iron in the bone marrow reticulum cells and normoblasts, is the definitive test for iron deficiency during Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDA). Credit: CDC.

Normal iron stores are seen as dark blue-staining material in the bone marrow. A person unable to maintain a balanced, iron-rich diet may suffer from some degree of Iron Deficiency Anemia, or IDA. Credit: CDC.

[Beri-Beri:] An inhabitant of the Dutch East Indies suffering from severe beri-beri (vitamin-B1 deficiency). Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Giants added to the President's police force by Congressional Deficiency Bill of last December. Credit: Library of Congress.

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I supplied the deficiency, not by interpolating a word here and a word there, but by writing in some consecutive lines

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, he muttered to himself, "and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.

Another time when Winslow visited them, it being a season of plenty with them, there was no deficiency in this respect

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Another type of SCID is ADA Deficiency. (references)

Some cases of PI are the result of a combined deficiency. (references)

This reduction is not enough to result in vitamin deficiency. (references)

Business

The major problem of the perfume industry is deficiency and low quality of locally produced flasks and containers. (references)

Every business has a back-up generator (sometimes two), and 35 percent of the Dominican private residences have an inverter to help them cope with the energy deficiency. (references)

There were very few specialized beauty products or brand stores, and the level of service there was very low. A couple of local beauty product manufacturers had their own brand stores, but they looked pathetic as they only offered a basic assortment of goods and constantly suffered from deficiency of basic products. (references)

Children

Pakistan

The International Labor Organization (ILO) reports that 8 percent of children suffer from iron deficiency and 30 to 40 percent of children in the country suffer from stunted growth. (references)

Economic History

Bolivia

The current Administration recognizes this deficiency and is working with the political opposition to legislate changes to the system. (references)

Belgium

The principal may justifiably terminate the commercial agent contract only if the agent shows substantial deficiency in carrying out his or her obligations. (references)

Worker Rights

China

Nutritional deficiency ailments, such as goiter (from a lack of iodine), night blindness (from a lack of Vitamin A), and rickets are said to be relatively common among children in some areas. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "deficiency": Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ♦ alpha 1-Antitrypsin Deficiency ♦ Antithrombin III Deficiency ♦ Ascorbic Acid Deficiency ♦ Carbamoyl-Phosphate Synthase I Deficiency Disease ♦ Choline Deficiency ♦ color vision deficiency ♦ colour vision deficiency ♦ deficiency disease ♦ Deficiency Diseases ♦ Deficiency of a curve ♦ deficiency of blood ♦ Factor V Deficiency ♦ Factor VII Deficiency ♦ Factor X Deficiency ♦ Factor XI Deficiency ♦ Factor XII Deficiency ♦ Factor XIII Deficiency ♦ Folic Acid Deficiency ♦ G6PD deficiency ♦ Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency ♦ IgA Deficiency ♦ IgG Deficiency ♦ immune deficiency ♦ immune deficiency syndrome ♦ Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes ♦ iron deficiency ♦ iron deficiency anaemia ♦ iron deficiency anemia ♦ lactase deficiency ♦ Lecithin Acyltransferase Deficiency ♦ Leukocyte-Adhesion Deficiency Syndrome ♦ Magnesium Deficiency ♦ mass deficiency ♦ mental deficiency ♦ mineral deficiency ♦ Multiple Carboxylase Deficiency ♦ Ornithine Carbamoyltransferase Deficiency Disease ♦ oxygen deficiency ♦ Platelet Storage Pool Deficiency ♦ potassium deficiency ♦ Protein C Deficiency ♦ Protein Deficiency ♦ Protein S Deficiency ♦ Pyridoxine Deficiency ♦ Pyruvate Carboxylase Deficiency Disease ♦ Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex Deficiency Disease ♦ Riboflavin Deficiency ♦ Thiamine Deficiency ♦ Vitamin A Deficiency ♦ Vitamin B 12 Deficiency ♦ Vitamin D Deficiency ♦ vitamin deficiency ♦ Vitamin E Deficiency ♦ Vitamin K Deficiency ♦ volume deficiency collapse ♦ Yang Deficiency ♦ Yin Deficiency ♦ zinc deficiency. Additional references.

Beginning with "deficiency": deficiency-based.

Ending with "deficiency": immuno-deficiency.

Containing "deficiency": vitamin-deficiency diet.

Albanian

deficit (deficit), pamjaftueshmëri (inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, scantiness, scarcity), mungesë (absence, absentness, dearth, deficit, destitution, lack, Miss, non-attendance, poverty, scarcity, shortcoming, short-fall, want, Wantage). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقدار النقص, ‏نقص (allow, cut, cut down, decrease, depress, deprivation, detract, diminish, diminution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, famish, flaw, gap, imperfection, incompetence, insufficiency, knock off, lack, lessen, limit, lower, paucity, rareness, reduce, reduction, retrench, revocation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, thin), ‏حاجة (bareness, necessity, need, poverty, requirement, want), ‏علة عيب (blemish, defect, flaw), ‏عجز (balk, buttock, decrepitude, disability, emasculation, failure, famine, gap, inability, incapability, incapacitate, incompetence, infirmity, paralyse, paralysis, paralyze, poorness, posterior, rump, shortage), ‏خلل (acetify, blemish, defect, disorder, failing, fault, flaw, imperfection, pickle, preserve, souse, trouble). (various references)

Bulgarian 

несъвършенство (imperfection), недостатък (blemish, debit, defect, demerit, disadvantage, disfiguration, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, hole, imperfection, kink, objection, shortcoming, vice, weakness), липса (absence, default, defect, failure, lack, penury, poverty, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, stringency, ullage, want), дефицит (deficit, short-fall). (various references)

Chinese 

虧 (deficit), 闕 (imperial city), 缺乏 (Dearth, Deficiencies, lack, Lacked, lacking, scant, scarce, scarcity), 絀 (crimson silk, to stitch), 不足 (cannot, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, not enough, not worth, should). (various references)

Czech

schodek (deficit), rozdíl (difference, differential, disparity, distinction, divide, excess, gulf, odds, variance, variety), nedostatek (absence, defect, deficit, demerit, drawback, failing, failure, fault, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, non-availability, penury, poverty, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, want), manko. (various references)

Danish

mangel (absence, lack, shortage, shortcoming). (various references)

Dutch

tekort (absence, deficit, lack, shortage, shortcoming), gemis (absence, lack, shortage, shortcoming), gebrek (absence, damage, lack, poverty, shortage, shortcoming, vice). (various references)

Farsi 

نقص (Blemish, Defect, Handicap, Incompetence), ناکاراءی , کمی (Bittock, Infrequency, Insignificance, Insufficience, Insufficiency, Paucity, Peep, Piece, Quantitative, Rarity), کمبود (Dearth, Deficit, Leakage, Shortage, Shortcoming), کسر (Deduction, Deficit, Diminution, Leakage, Under). (various references)

Finnish

defisienssi, virheellisyys (faultiness, inaccuracy, incorrectness), virhe (aberration, blunder, error, fault, mistake, slip), vika (defect, fault, flaw), vajavaisuus (defect, imperfection), tulovirtaaman vajaus, puuttuma, puutteellisuus (defect, defectiveness, lack), puute (defect, deprivation, failing, lack, shortage, shortcoming, want), poikkeama (declination, deflection, deviation), maksuvajaus. (various references)

French

manque (dearth, default), insuffisance (defect, deficit), carence (deprivation), déficience (defect), défaut (defect). (various references)

Frisian

brekme (absence, lack, shortage, shortcoming). (various references)

German

Unzulänglichkeit (inadequacy, insufficiency, sketchiness, unsatisfactoriness, weakness), Manko (absence, deficit, lack, shortage, shortcoming), mangel (absence, dearth, default, defect, deficit, desideratum, drought, fault, flaw, imperfection, lack, mangle, need, paucity, penury, poverty, privation, privations, rotary iron, scarcities, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, vise, want), Fehler (aberration, absence, blemish, bug, defect, demerits, error, failing, fault, flaw, flaws, lack, lapse, misstep, mistake, mistakes, nonconformance, shortage, shortcoming, slip, slipup, solecism, trip, vise), defizit (deficit), Defizienz. (various references)

Greek 

έλλειμμα (deficit), έλλειψη (absence, dearth, default of, defect, ellipse, failing, lack, scarcity, shortage, shortage of, shortcoming, want), ελάττωμα (blemish, defect, failing, fault, flaw, imperfection, shortcoming, vice). (various references)

Hebrew 

מחסור (deprivation, insufficiency, lack, misery, need, paucity, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, want), מ�'בל�" (limitation, restriction, shortcoming), לקוי (blemish, defect, defective, deficient, eclipse, failing, failure, fault, faulty, ill, imperfection, inadequacy, inadequate, shortcoming, spoilt, stricken, unsound, vicious, wanting), אי ספיק�" (insufficiency), חוסר (insufficiency, lack, shortage), חסרון (defect, disadvantage, drawback, loss, omission, shortcoming, want). (various references)

Hungarian

tökéletlenség (defect, failing, immaturity, imperfection), hiány (absence, blank, dearth, defect, deficit, deprivation, failure, hiatus, lack, missing, missing link, poverty, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, upchuck, want, wastage), hiányosság (blemish, defect, fault, flaw, incompleteness, incompletion, insufficiency, scantiness), elégtelenség (defect, failure, inadequacy, inefficiency, insufficiency, shortcoming, shortfall), deficit (deficit, shortfall, Wantage). (various references)

Indonesian

kekurangan (absence, dearth, dearth of, default, demerit, famine, lack, short of, shortage), cacat (defect, disability, flawed, impair, malformation, physical defect). (various references)

Italian

deficienza (deficit), mancanza (absence, default, defect, failing, failure, fault, lack, Lacuna, lapse, shortage, shortcoming, want), disavanzo (deficit), difetto (blemish, bug, damage, dearth, default, defect, desideratum, detriment, disadvantages, disservice, failure, fault, flaw, harm, lack, Miss, shortage, shortcoming, vice), deficit (deficit, shortage, shortfall), carenza (lack, shortage, want). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� 如 (lack, privation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふそく (accidental, additional clause, additional rules, by-laws, dearth, insufficiency, lack, shortage, supplementary provisions, unexpected, unforeseen), ふび (defect, imperfection, inadequacy, Yours in haste), けつじょ (lack, lusting, privation), けつ (arse, ass, buttocks, decision, excellence, lack, mosquito larva, that, vacancy, vote), けっか�" (blood vessel, defect, fault). (various references)

Korean 

부족 (Deficiencies, lack, scarcity, shortage, tribal, tribe). (various references)

Manx

laccal (deficient, desire, want). (various references)

Norwegian

mangel (absence, defect, flaw, lack). (various references)

Papiamen

manko (absence, lack, shortage, shortcoming). (various references)

Pig Latin

eficiencyday.(various references)

Polish

brak (absence, lack, shortage, shortcoming). (various references)

Portuguese

carência (absence, failure, famine, lack, miss, need, negation, penurity, penury, poorness, scarcity, shortage, stringency, want). (various references)

Romanian

deficit (deficit, shortage, shortcoming), deficienţã (demerit, drawback, imperfection, shortcoming), defect (defect, demerit, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, hole, imperfection, infelicity, lame, shortcoming, ulcer, vice, want, weakness), scãdere (abstraction, decline, decrease, deduction, defect, degression, derogation, diminution, drawback, drop, fall, lessening, reduction, remission, shortcoming, subtraction), omisiune (flaw, negligence, omission, out, overlooking, oversight, slip), neajuns (defect, difficulty, drawback, lack, mischief, out, shortcoming, trouble), lipsã (absence, blemish, dearth, default, defect, demerit, destitution, drawback, failure, fault, gap, hardship, imperfection, lack, minus, mistake, necessity, neediness, out, paucity, penury, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarceness, shortage, shortcoming, stinginess, stringency, vice, want), insuficienţã (inadequacy, insufficiency, paucity, shortage, shortcoming, tenuity, want), carenţã (default). (various references)

Russian 

недостаток (blemish, dearth, default, defect, demerit, destitution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, failure, fault, flaw, lack, letdown, minus, objection, penury, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, vice, want). (various references)

Scottish

dìth (destruction : a, off her, want). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nedostatak (blemish, defect, defiance, demerit, failing, failure, fault, imperfection, lack, minus, shortage, want), manjak (defiance, deficit, shortage, shortfall, short-fall, shortness, wantage). (various references)

Spanish

deficiencia (elimination, hebetude, impairment), falta (absence, bankruptcy, dearth, default, defect, deficit, error, fail, failing, fault, foul, infringement, is lacking, lack, lapse, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, mistake, need, out of, paucity, shortage, shortcoming, shortness, slip, want), defecto (batter, blemish, damage, default, defect, failing, fault, hole, shortcoming). (various references)

Swedish

brist (absence, dearth, defect, deficit, demerit, desideratum, destitution, disadvantage, failing, failure, fault, flaw, imperfection, lack, need, poverty, scarcity, scarity, shortage, shortcoming, short-fall, want, warp). (various references)

Turkish

yoksunluk (defraudation, deprivation, lack, privation), yetersizlik (disability, disablement, flimsiness, handicap, inability, inadequacy, incapability, incapacity, incompetence, inefficacy, insufficiency, littleness, paucity, poorness, poverty, scantiness, scantness, slenderness, slimness, spareness), noksan (defect, gappy, lack, shortcoming, wanting), kusur (blame, blemish, cavil, culpability, defalcation, default, defect, demerit, failing, failure, fault, flaw, freckle, gaff, imperfection, inaccuracy, infirmity, remissness, scar, shortcoming, stigma, taint, vice), hesap açığı (deficit), gerilik, gereksinim (demand, need, requirement, want), eksiklik (dearth, defalcation, defect, defectiveness, deficit, desideratum, failing, failure, flimsiness, imperfection, inadequacy, incompetence, insufficiency, lack, Lacuna, lameness, negation, poverty, shortage, shortcoming, shortness, sketchiness, void), eksik (defective, deficient, gappy, imperfect, inadequate, incommensurate, incompetent, incomplete, insufficient, lacking, lame, less, minus, missing, missing part, out, ragged, scrimp, scrimpy, short, shortfall, shy, sketchy, skimp, skimpy, wanting), açik (above-board, absence, bright, clear, clearly, deficit, distinct, free, lack, light, obvious, of course, open, plain, serene, shortage, shortcoming, sincere, unbiased, unchecked, untroubled, vacant), açık (aboveground, apparent, articulate, avowed, bare, blank, broad, candid, categorical, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, cloudless, confessed, decided, declared, decollete, deficient, deficient amount, deficit, definite, definitive, direct, distinct, downright, evident, expansive, explicit, exposed, express, expressly, fair, forthright, free, gaping, hospitable, in blank, light, loose, lucent, lucid, luminous, obvious, open, open air, open ended, outdoor, outright, overt, pale, patent, perspicuous, plain, point blank, precise, raw, revealing, round, serene, shadowless, shirt-sleeve, shortage, shortfall, spread, Square, straightforward, swinging, translucent, unambiguous, unashamed, unclouded, uncomplicated, unconcealed, uncovered, uncrossed, undisguised, unequivocal, unlocked, unmistakable, unobstructed, unprotected, unsealed, upfront, vacant, visible, well-marked, wide open, wishywashy). (various references)

Ukrainian

відступність, некомплект, недолік (blemish, defect, deficit, dereliction, disadvantage, drawback, failing, imperfection, infirmity, lapse, minus, negative, objection, out, preterition, shortcoming, take off, vice, wrinkle), брак (brack, dearth, defect, discard [tech.], reject, spoilage, waster), дефіцит (bad, deficit, shortage, shortfall). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự thiếu hụt (short fall), sự không đầy đủ số tiền thiếu hụt, sự kém cỏi (incompetence, incompetency), lượng thiếu hụt sự thiếu sót. (various references)

lalla. (various references)

defectio, defectione, defectionem. (various references)

faute. (various references)

lak. (various references)

tare. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "deficiency": immunodeficiency. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Deficiency" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: defeciency, deffeciency, defficiency, deficeincy, deficency, deficiancy, deiciency, difficiency, eficiency. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: decency, edifice.

-4 letters: define, deific, edenic, fenced, nidify.

-5 letters: cynic, deice, deify, dicey, diene, edify, fence, ficin, fiend, fined, indie, needy, niece, yince.