nondeficiency

noun, plural de·fi·cien·cies.

the state of being deficient; lack; incompleteness; insufficiency.

the amount lacked; a deficit.

Origin:
1625–35; < Late Latin dēficientia, Latin dēficient- (stem of dēficiēns). See deficient, -ency

Related forms

non·de·fi·cien·cy, noun, plural non·de·fi·cien·cies.

pre·de·fi·cien·cy, noun, plural pre·de·fi·cien·cies.

Synonyms
1. shortage, inadequacy, paucity, scarcity.

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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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