All deficiency synonyms

noun deficiency

• imperfection — an imperfect detail; flaw: a law full of imperfections.
• flaw — Also called windflaw. a sudden, usually brief windstorm or gust of wind.
• failing — Slang. an embarrassing or humorous mistake, humiliating situation, etc., that is subject to ridicule and given an exaggerated importance: Their app update is a massive fail. the condition or quality resulting from having failed in this way: His online post is full of fail. a person who fails in this way.
• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
• weakness — the state or quality of being weak; lack of strength, firmness, vigor, or the like; feebleness.
• lack — something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
• defect — A defect is a fault or imperfection in a person or thing.
• dearth — If there is a dearth of something, there is not enough of it.
• glitch — a defect or malfunction in a machine or plan.
• insufficiency — deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy: insufficiency of supplies.
• shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
• scarcity — insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth.
• shortage — a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
• frailty — the quality or state of being frail.
• fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
• loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
• privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
• default — If a person, company, or country defaults on something that they have legally agreed to do, such as paying some money or doing a piece of work before a particular time, they fail to do it.
• demerit — The demerits of something or someone are their faults or disadvantages.
• bug — A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
• paucity — smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness: a country with a paucity of resources.
• scantiness — scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
• absence — Someone's absence from a place is the fact that they are not there.
• dereliction — If a building or a piece of land is in a state of dereliction, it is deserted or abandoned.
• deficit — A deficit is the amount by which something is less than what is required or expected, especially the amount by which the total money received is less than the total money spent.
• want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
• need — a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.
• sin — the 12th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• defalcation — the amount embezzled
• inadequacy — Also, inadequateness [in-ad-i-kwit-nis] /ɪnˈæd ɪ kwɪt nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being inadequate; insufficiency.