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deficiency
Overview of noun deficiency
The noun deficiency has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (6) lack, deficiency, want -- (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")
2. (2) insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency -- (lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun deficiency
2 senses of deficiency
Sense 1
lack, deficiency, want
=> need, demand
=> condition, status
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
=> amount
=> magnitude
=> property
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun deficiency
2 senses of deficiency
Sense 1
lack, deficiency, want
=> absence
=> dearth, famine, shortage
=> deficit
=> mineral deficiency
=> shortness
=> stringency, tightness
Sense 2
insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
=> meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity
=> deficit, shortage, shortfall
=> scarcity, scarceness
=> slenderness
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun deficiency
2 senses of deficiency
Sense 1
lack, deficiency, want
=> need, demand
Sense 2
insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
=> amount
Antonyms of noun deficiency
Member Holonyms of noun deficiency
Substance Holonyms of noun deficiency
Part Holonyms of noun deficiency
Member Meronyms of noun deficiency
Substance Meronyms of noun deficiency
Part Meronyms of noun deficiency
Meronyms of noun deficiency
Holonyms of noun deficiency
Attributes of noun deficiency
Derived Forms of noun deficiency
2 senses of deficiency
Sense 1
lack, deficiency, want
RELATED TO>(adj) deficient#3
=> deficient, inferior, substandard
Sense 2
insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
RELATED TO>(adj) deficient#1
=> deficient, lacking(predicate), wanting(predicate)
RELATED TO>(adj) deficient#2
=> insufficient, deficient
Domain of noun deficiency
Domain Terms of noun deficiency
Familiarity of noun deficiency
deficiency used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun deficiency
2 senses of deficiency
Sense 1
lack, deficiency, want
> need, demand
=> lack, deficiency, want
=> necessity
Sense 2
insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
> amount
=> positivity, positiveness
=> negativity, negativeness
=> critical mass
=> quantity
=> increase, increment
=> decrease, decrement
=> smallness
=> insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
=> margin
=> number, figure
Meronyms of noun deficiency
2 senses of deficiency
Holonyms of noun deficiency
Grep of noun deficiency
acquired immune deficiency syndrome
color vision deficiency
colour vision deficiency
deficiency
deficiency disease
immunodeficiency
iron deficiency anaemia
iron deficiency anemia
lactase deficiency
mass deficiency
mental deficiency
mineral deficiency
severe combined immunodeficiency
vitamin-deficiency diet
zinc deficiency
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