Associations to the word «Deficiency»
Noun
- Anemia
- Vitamin
- Iodine
- Malnutrition
- Zinc
- Retardation
- Magnesium
- Defi
- Syndrome
- Estrogen
- Hormone
- Testosterone
- Mutation
- Abnormality
- Diarrhea
- Intolerance
- Nutrient
- Dysfunction
- Metabolism
- Serum
- Defect
- Intake
- Blindness
- Phosphate
- Excess
- Imbalance
- Alcoholism
- Phenotype
- Manganese
- Degeneration
- Calcium
- Platelet
- Insulin
- Lymphocyte
- Disorder
- Toxicity
- Enzyme
- Glucose
- Dopamine
- Phosphorus
- Diabetes
- Prevalence
- Aids
- Puberty
- Nutrition
- Depletion
- Symptom
- Uptake
- Biosynthesis
- Susceptibility
- Kinase
- Obesity
- Liver
- Deletion
- Cholesterol
- Potassium
- Steroid
- Diet
- Sickle
- Absorption
- Disease
- Supplement
- Accumulation
- Hypertension
- Dementia
- Impairment
- Alcoholic
- Allergy
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
DEFICIENCY, noun. (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
DEFICIENCY, noun. (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
DEFICIENCY, noun. (geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
DEFICIENCY, noun. (geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
Dictionary definition
DEFICIENCY, noun. 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".
DEFICIENCY, noun. Lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits".
Wise words
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say
"infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no
word left when you want to talk about something really
infinite.