insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
(noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number; “the inadequacy of unemployment benefits”
lack, deficiency, want
(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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
deficiency (countable and uncountable, plural deficiencies)
(uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
(countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
(geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
(geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
• sufficiency
• excess
Source: Wiktionary
De*fi"cien*cy, n.; pl. Deficiencies. Etym: [See Deficient.]
Definition: The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. "A deficiencyof blood." Arbuthnot. [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. Deficiency of a curve (Geom.), the amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
Decaffeinated coffee is not caffeine-free. Studies from the National Institute of Health (US) have shown that virtually all decaf coffee types contain caffeine. A 236-ml (8-oz) cup of decaf coffee contains up to 7 mg of caffeine, whereas a regular cup provided 70-140 mg.
