deficiencies
Where something's missing
Deficiencies are shortfalls or inadequacies—things that are lacking or insufficient.
The word often appears in medical and nutritional contexts: vitamin deficiencies, iron deficiency.
It also describes gaps in systems or performance: The audit revealed serious deficiencies in our accounting practices.
A deficiency implies something measurable that falls below what's needed or expected.
Insufficiency of something needed
- dearthAcute shortage of something
- paucityInsufficiency of amount
- shortfallFailure to reach quota
- undersupplyInadequate provision of goods
deficit · lack · want · privation · unavailability · sparsity · meagerness · drought
Weakness of body
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
- debilityImpaired strength or vitality
- infirmityWeakness from illness or age
- fragilityEase of breaking
feebleness · impairment · handicap · limitation · susceptibility · Achilles heel · blind spot · soft spot
Essential organic nutrient
- mineralNaturally formed crystalline solid
- ironElement twenty-six
- calciumElement twenty, builds bones
- proteinFolded amino chain
iodine · zinc · folate · B12 · anemia · rickets · scurvy · beriberi
Without legal effect
- absenceState of not being
- omissionFailure to include
- lacunaAbsent piece in sequence
- holeAbsence in matter
blank · vacancy · vacuum · missing piece · incompleteness · hiatus · discontinuity · oversight
A fault or weakness
- incompetenceLack of required skill
- ineptitudeLack of ability
- unfitnessLack of suitability
- unsuitabilityNot right for purpose
ineffectiveness · inefficiency · imperfection · mediocrity · underperformance · flawedness · incompleteness · defectiveness
scarcity
Insufficiency of something needed
undersupply · deficit · lack · want · privation · unavailability · sparsity · meagerness · drought · famine
frailty
Weakness of body
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
- debilityImpaired strength or vitality
- infirmityWeakness from illness or age
fragility · feebleness · impairment · handicap · limitation · susceptibility · Achilles heel · blind spot · soft spot · chink
vitamin
Essential organic nutrient
protein · iodine · zinc · folate · B12 · anemia · rickets · scurvy · beriberi · pellagra
void
Without legal effect
hole · blank · vacancy · vacuum · missing piece · incompleteness · hiatus · discontinuity · oversight · neglect
shortcoming
A fault or weakness
- incompetenceLack of required skill
- ineptitudeLack of ability
- unfitnessLack of suitability
unsuitability · ineffectiveness · inefficiency · imperfection · mediocrity · underperformance · flawedness · incompleteness · defectiveness · unsatisfactoriness
- failuresfailure, failures, flop, flops, bust
- flawsfaults, defect, flaw, blemish, flaws
- workplace safetyworkplace safety, PPE, safety standards, worker safety, goggles
- auditsinternal audit, financial audit, external audit, tax audit, forensic audit
- mismanagementmishandling, dysfunction, misuse, incompetence, inefficiency
deficienciessurpluses
Amounts exceeding requirements
excesses · abundances · overages · gluts · plethoras
deficienciesstrengths
Powers or capabilities
assets · advantages · merits · proficiencies · virtues
deficienciessufficiencies
States of having enough
adequacies · plenties · competencies · satisfactions · fulfillments
- immune deficienciesImpaired bodily protection systems
- vitamin deficienciesInsufficient essential nutrient levels
- nutritional deficienciesInsufficient intake of nutrients
- nutrient deficienciesInsufficient essential dietary components
- dietary deficienciesInsufficient intake of nutrients