deficiency :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

n. lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"

n. 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"

force, strength, forcefulness

n. physical energy or intensity; "he hit with all the force he could muster"; "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"; "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man"

depression, dent, indentation

n. the act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions

crash, collapse

n. a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)

turkey, bomb, dud

n. an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"

decline, decay

n. a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

deterioration, worsening, decline in quality

n. process of changing to an inferior state

ebb, ebbing, wane

n. a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

bankruptcy

n. inability to discharge all your debts as they come due; "the company had to declare bankruptcy"; "fraudulent loans led to the failure of many banks"

weakness

n. the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain; "his weakness increased as he became older"; "the weakness of the span was overlooked until it collapsed"

deficit, shortage, shortfall

n. an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period); "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit"

dearth, paucity

n. an insufficient quantity or number

impoverishment, poorness, poverty

n. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

imperfection, imperfectness

n. the state or an instance of being imperfect

drought

n. a shortage of rainfall; "farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season"

fault, defect, flaw

n. an imperfection in a device or machine; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer"

awkwardness, ineptness, clumsiness, slowness, ineptitude, maladroitness

n. unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

incompetence, incompetency

n. lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications

inefficiency

n. unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency

failure

n. lack of success; "he felt that his entire life had been a failure"; "that year there was a crop failure"

decline

n. a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state

impairment, deterioration

n. a symptom of reduced quality or strength

failing, weakness

n. a flaw or weak point; "he was quick to point out his wife's failings"

abundance, copiousness

n. the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply; "an age of abundance"

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