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noun, plural -cies.
1.
the state of being deficient; lack; incompleteness; insufficiency.
2.
the amount lacked; a deficit.
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| deficiency (dɪˈfɪʃənsɪ) | |
| —n , pl -cies | |
| 1. | the state or quality of being deficient |
| 2. | a lack or insufficiency; shortage |
| 3. | another word for deficit |
| 4. | biology the absence of a gene or a region of a chromosome normally present |
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Word Origin & History
deficiency
1630s, from deficience (c.1600), from L.L. deficientia, from deficientem (see deficient).
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Medical Dictionary
deficiency de·fi·cien·cy (dĭ-fĭsh'ən-sē)
n.
A lack or shortage of something essential to health; an insufficiency.
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