DEFICIENCY

• (noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number

  "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"

  synonyms : inadequacy , insufficiency

• (noun) 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"

  synonyms : lack , want

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