n. | 1. | The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
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2. | deficiency - lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" Synonyms: inadequacy, insufficiency |