Definition for Deficiency:

• Being deficient; want, lack; thing wanting; amount by which thing, esp. revenue, falls short. [ Late Latin]

Synonyms for Deficiency:

• n.

  •
  • scarcity.
  •abandonment (noun)
  • defection.
  •debt (noun)
  • arrears.
  •deficiency (noun)
  • lack,
  • insufficiency.
  •failing (noun)
  • blind spot.
  •failure (noun)
  • nonfeasance,
  • insolvency,
  • Non-performance,
  • Unsuccess.
  •imperfection (noun)
  • blotch,
  • blemish,
  • spoilage,
  • incompleteness.
  •imperfection, inadequacy (noun)
  • bug,
  • glitch,
  • dereliction,
  • privation,
  • shortage,
  • inability to hack it.
  •incompleteness (noun)
  • omission,
  • segmental,
  • part,
  • discontinuity,
  • sectional,
  • gap,
  • fraction,
  • curtailment,
  • fragmentation,
  • hiatus.
  •insufficiency (noun)
  • miserliness,
  • niggardliness,
  • scarceness,
  • Flyspeck,
  • stinginess,
  • meagerness,
  • pittance.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • bankruptcy,
  • Without,
  • Achilles' Heel,
  • nonattendance,
  • scantness,
  • Noncompletion,
  • damage,
  • abnormality.
  •
  • demerit,
  • absence,
  • underage,
  • disadvantage.
  •
  • limitation.
  •Other relevant words:
  • paltriness,
  • imperfectness,
  • foible,
  • fortunately,
  • happily,
  • powerlessness,
  • indecisiveness,
  • vacuum,
  • inexactness,
  • blessedly,
  • breach,
  • elegantly,
  • unskillfulness,
  • fortunate,
  • uselessness,
  • erroneousness,
  • exiguity,
  • stringency,
  • outage,
  • inadequate,
  • handily,
  • with success,
  • impoverishment,
  • delicately,
  • weak point,
  • Peccancy,
  • callowness,
  • warmly,
  • engulf,
  • disappear,
  • shabbiness,
  • debility,
  • favorably,
  • incomplete,
  • void,
  • ensnare,
  • Neediness,
  • deficient,
  • not worth,
  • beguile,
  • dexterously,
  • snag,
  • disgrace,
  • death,
  • out of practice,
  • finely,
  • barrenness,
  • uncultivated,
  • anaemia,
  • confidently,
  • smallness,
  • impoverished,
  • minority,
  • mediocrity,
  • indigence,
  • prosperously,
  • miscarriage,
  • impairment,
  • half measures,
  • besetting sin,
  • destitute,
  • laughable,
  • spot,
  • crack,
  • vacancy,
  • auspiciously,
  • go,
  • abort,
  • fallibility,
  • wane,
  • spinelessness,
  • problem,
  • courteously,
  • incompetence,
  • by chance,
  • funny,
  • faulty,
  • absolutely,
  • promptly,
  • inability,
  • subnormality,
  • absurd,
  • readily,
  • certainly,
  • entrap,
  • be short of,
  • wish,
  • haply,
  • undersupply,
  • joyfully,
  • critically,
  • desire,
  • encouragingly,
  • hotly,
  • adulteration,
  • minimum,
  • contentedly,
  • inaccuracy,
  • rift,
  • unevenness,
  • depart,
  • deprivation,
  • lucky,
  • amiss,
  • ullage,
  • positively,
  • scant,
  • cease,
  • beggary,
  • luckily,
  • vulnerable place,
  • satisfactorily,
  • hole,
  • miserable,
  • Impecuniosity,
  • stingy,
  • poor,
  • die,
  • short measure,
  • fail,
  • fall,
  • starvation,
  • Plumply,
  • penitent,
  • short,
  • blissfully,
  • emptiness,
  • peccadillo,
  • peradventure,
  • apologetic,
  • break,
  • error,
  • Non-fulfilment,
  • ineptitude,
  • advantageously,
  • enmesh,
  • providentially,
  • Incompletion,
  • scrappiness,
  • surely,
  • vulgarity,
  • shortness,
  • by luck,
  • desideratum,
  • opening,
  • catch,
  • destitution,
  • gracefully,
  • decease,
  • badness,
  • interval,
  • meanness,
  • felicitously,
  • deftly,
  • bald,
  • timely,
  • kink,
  • blot,
  • ludicrous,
  • irregularity,
  • indiscretion,
  • missing link,
  • attract,
  • bloodlessness,
  • low,
  • apologize,
  • rarity,
  • politely,
  • perish,
  • sketchiness,
  • drop,
  • bad,
  • thankfully,
  • needy,
  • disappoint,
  • ridiculous,
  • welly,
  • unsubstantiality,
  • overwhelm,
  • aptly,
  • genuine,
  • insufficient,
  • underdevelopment,
  • inexactitude,
  • littleness,
  • triumphantly,
  • remissness,
  • maladroitness,
  • Arrearage,
  • compassionately,
  • poorness,
  • bare subsistence,
  • taint,
  • hopefully,
  • impotence,
  • Non-existence,
  • blank,
  • insignificance,
  • worthlessness,
  • cloven foot,
  • conveniently,
  • pathetic,
  • regret,
  • liability,
  • scarce,
  • baseness,
  • incidentally,
  • unsatisfactoriness,
  • joyously,
  • patchiness,
  • beneficially,
  • well,
  • triviality,
  • naked,
  • Arrestment,
  • immaturity,
  • stint,
  • promisingly,
  • insubstantial,
  • weak side,
  • weak link,
  • be lacking,
  • fade,
  • inefficiency,
  • indigent,
  • vice,
  • inferiority,
  • drown,
  • submerge,
  • successfully,
  • fortuitously,
  • faute,
  • defective,
  • foolish,
  • not enough,
  • optimistically,
  • incapacity,
  • sorry,
  • mercifully,
  • impurity,
  • expire,
  • inundate,
  • Nonpreparation,
  • Wantage,
  • quality,
  • Defectibility,
  • lose,
  • goodly,
  • benignly,
  • opportunely,
  • graciously,
  • Subordinacy,
  • preposterous,
  • non-completion,
  • pettiness,
  • adroitly,
  • unimportance,
  • lacuna.

Paraphrases for Deficiency:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    shortcomings, weaknesses, insufficiency, inadequacy.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    shortcoming, defect, weakness, insufficiency, inadequacy.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    deficit, deficits, shortfall.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    scarcity, dearth, paucity.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    disadvantage, discrepancy, abnormality, inconsistency, inefficiency, malfunction, unavailability, void, incompetence, mistake, difference, limitation, Non-performance.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    impairment, impairments.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    irregularity, deficient, deprivation, drawback, omission, lacuna, Lacunae, loophole, failing, handicap, deficit, impairment, infirmity, anomaly, impropriety, shortfall, error, incompleteness, problem.

Antonyms for Deficiency:

• n.

  • imperfection, inadequacy
    adequacy, plenty, abundance, strength, strong point, superfluity, achievement, excess, sufficiency, success, surplus, perfection, enough, accomplishment, faultlessness, advantage, satisfaction.
  • Other antonyms:
    bountifulness, opulence, copiousness, amplitude, wealth.

Homophones for Deficiency:

• deviousness, dubiousness, defusing, diffusing, diffuseness, dovishness, devising, dipsomaniac, debasing, Davy Jones, dapsang.

Hypernym for Deficiency:

• n.

  • state
    famine, tightness, shortness, dearth, absence, mineral deficiency, shortage, stringency, deficit.

Hyponym for Deficiency:

• n.

  • state
    need, demand.