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
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of
understanding; one must use the same words for the same
genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's
experiences in common.