Synonyms for Deficiency:

• n.

  •Achilles' heel (noun)
  • achilles'-heel,
  • chink the armor,
  • achilles-heel,
  • chink armor,
  • soft underbellies.
  •
  • scarcity.
  •abandonment (noun)
  • defection.
  •absence (noun)
  • unavailabilities,
  • unavailability.
  •arrears (noun)
  • de bits,
  • de-bits,
  • de-bit,
  • de bit,
  • balance dues.
  •dearth (noun)
  • in frequencies,
  • in-frequency,
  • slim picking,
  • un-commonness,
  • in frequency,
  • un commonnesses,
  • in-frequencies,
  • un commonness,
  • sparsities,
  • rarenesses,
  • uncommonnesses,
  • un-commonnesses,
  • exiguousnesses.
  •debt (noun)
  • arrears.
  •default (noun)
  • non payments,
  • dis regards,
  • over-sight,
  • non payment,
  • over sight,
  • de fault,
  • de faults,
  • non-payments,
  • de-fault,
  • overlookings,
  • over-looking,
  • over looking,
  • over sights,
  • dis-regard,
  • dis-regards,
  • over-sights,
  • dis regard,
  • de-faults.
  •defect (noun)
  • rough spots,
  • dis-colorations,
  • in jury,
  • mis takes,
  • dis colorations,
  • mis take,
  • dis-coloration,
  • marrings,
  • in-jury,
  • in juries,
  • mis-takes,
  • mis-take,
  • dis coloration.
  •defection (noun)
  • forsakings,
  • dis-affections,
  • re-volt,
  • disownments,
  • re volts,
  • dis affection,
  • dis affections,
  • re treats,
  • dis loyalties,
  • sunderings,
  • re-treats,
  • re volt,
  • re-treat,
  • dis-loyalties,
  • dis-loyalty,
  • re-volts,
  • dis-affection,
  • dis loyalty.
  •deficiency (noun)
  • lack,
  • insufficiency.
  •deficit (noun)
  • due bills,
  • in hocks,
  • in red,
  • red inks,
  • insufficiences,
  • dead horses,
  • in hole.
  •difficulty, trouble (noun)
  • disadvantage(s).
  •disadvantage(s) (noun)
  • blockings,
  • de privations,
  • fly ointment,
  • in convenience,
  • in-utilities,
  • in utility,
  • adverse circumstance,
  • in utilities,
  • fly the ointment,
  • de privation,
  • dis-advantage,
  • dis-commodity,
  • de-privations,
  • in-convenience,
  • dis-advantages,
  • dis commodity,
  • in-conveniences,
  • dis commodities,
  • in conveniences,
  • fly in ointment,
  • de-privation,
  • in-utility,
  • dis advantages,
  • dis advantage,
  • dis-commodities.
  •drought (noun)
  • de-hydration,
  • rainlessnesses,
  • dry spells,
  • de hydration,
  • Dehydrations,
  • de-hydrations,
  • desiccations,
  • parchednesses,
  • de hydrations.
  •failing (noun)
  • failings,
  • blind spot.
  •failure (noun)
  • insolvency,
  • washout,
  • faux pas,
  • nonsuccess,
  • unsuccessfulness,
  • non-success,
  • implosion,
  • nonfeasance,
  • lead balloon,
  • Non-performance,
  • sinking ship,
  • nonperformance,
  • loser,
  • fiasco,
  • total loss,
  • lemon,
  • Unsuccess.
  •fault (noun)
  • de merits,
  • de merit,
  • de-merits,
  • de-merit.
  •frailty (noun)
  • daintinesses,
  • peccabilities,
  • suscepts.
  •imperfection (noun)
  • blotch,
  • blemish,
  • spoilage,
  • incompleteness.
  •imperfection, inadequacy (noun)
  • bug,
  • glitch,
  • dereliction,
  • privation,
  • shortage,
  • inability to hack it.
  •impoverishment (noun)
  • de vitalizations,
  • de vitalization,
  • de-vitalizations,
  • de-vitalization.
  •inadequacy (noun)
  • in competence,
  • in adequacy,
  • in aptnesses,
  • in-capacity,
  • in-efficiency,
  • in-efficacies,
  • un-suitablenesses,
  • in efficacies,
  • in-competencies,
  • in-efficiencies,
  • in capacities,
  • in-effectiveness,
  • un fitnesses,
  • in competences,
  • in-competence,
  • in-adequacy,
  • in-efficacy,
  • in-competences,
  • inaptnesses,
  • in efficacy,
  • in-effectivenesses,
  • in competency,
  • in-aptness,
  • in-competency,
  • in efficiencies,
  • skimpinesses,
  • un-fitness,
  • in effectivenesses,
  • in-adequateness,
  • in-capacities,
  • in competencies,
  • un suitablenesses,
  • inadequatenesses,
  • in adequacies,
  • in-effectualnesses,
  • un suitableness,
  • in effectiveness,
  • in aptness,
  • in effectualness,
  • un-suitableness,
  • in-aptnesses,
  • un-fitnesses,
  • faultinesses,
  • in effectualnesses,
  • in efficiency,
  • in capacity,
  • un fitness,
  • in-effectualness,
  • in adequateness,
  • defectivenesses,
  • in-adequacies,
  • in adequatenesses,
  • in-adequatenesses.
  •incompleteness (noun)
  • omission,
  • segmental,
  • part,
  • discontinuity,
  • sectional,
  • gap,
  • fraction,
  • curtailment,
  • fragmentation,
  • hiatus.
  •infirmity (noun)
  • dis-eases,
  • dis eases,
  • un-healths,
  • in dispositions,
  • in disposition,
  • dis order,
  • un healths,
  • un-healthiness,
  • unwellnesses,
  • dis-order,
  • un-healthinesses,
  • in-dispositions,
  • dis orders,
  • diseasednesses,
  • un wellnesses,
  • un healthiness,
  • un wellness,
  • un-wellnesses,
  • un healthinesses,
  • sicklinesses,
  • un-wellness,
  • flus,
  • un-health,
  • unhealthinesses,
  • un health,
  • in-disposition,
  • dis ease,
  • ailings,
  • dis-orders,
  • dis-ease,
  • unhealths,
  • ill healths.
  •insolvency (noun)
  • in-solvencies,
  • in solvency,
  • in solvencies,
  • in-solvency.
  •insubstantiality (noun)
  • in-substantialities,
  • in substantialities,
  • in substantiality,
  • in-substantiality.
  •insufficiency (noun)
  • miserliness,
  • niggardliness,
  • scarceness,
  • Flyspeck,
  • stinginess,
  • meagerness,
  • pittance.
  •loss (noun)
  • losings,
  • misplacement,
  • losses,
  • losing,
  • retardation.
  •nonfeasance (noun)
  • non feasance,
  • non feasances,
  • non-feasances.
  •paucity (noun)
  • slendernesses,
  • fewnesses,
  • sparsenesses,
  • slightnesses.
  •poverty (noun)
  • pauperism,
  • under-development,
  • impecuniousness,
  • penuriousness,
  • penury,
  • Necessitousness,
  • pennilessness,
  • abjection.
  •recreance (noun)
  • re-creance,
  • re creance,
  • re creances,
  • re-creances.
  •scantiness (noun)
  • tightnesses,
  • Leannesses.
  •sin (noun)
  • evil doings,
  • un godlinesses,
  • dis obedience,
  • evil-doings,
  • unrighteousnesses,
  • un righteousnesses,
  • un righteousness,
  • mis-deeds,
  • un godliness,
  • dis obediences,
  • wrongnesses,
  • ungodlinesses,
  • un-godliness,
  • mis deeds,
  • venialities,
  • un-righteousnesses,
  • mis-deed,
  • dis-obediences,
  • un-godlinesses,
  • mis deed,
  • un-righteousness,
  • sinfulnesses,
  • dis-obedience.
  •state (noun)
  • deficiency.
  •unsoundness (noun)
  • un-soundness,
  • un soundness,
  • un soundnesses,
  • un-soundnesses.
  •unsuccess (noun)
  • un successes,
  • un success,
  • un-successes,
  • un-success.
  •unsuccessfulness (noun)
  • un successfulnesses,
  • un successfulness,
  • un-successfulnesses,
  • un-successfulness.
  •weakness (noun)
  • invalidity,
  • sore point,
  • inconstancy,
  • inconstancies,
  • chink in armor,
  • invalidities,
  • vitiation,
  • faintness.
  •weak point (noun)
  • weak-point.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • bankruptcy,
  • Noncompletion,
  • Achilles' Heel,
  • overflow,
  • nonattendance,
  • underside,
  • damage,
  • scantness,
  • absent,
  • Without,
  • 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.