English to English noun
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the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Example:
• 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
source: wordnet30
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lack of an adequate quantity or number | Example:
• the inadequacy of unemployment benefits
source: wordnet30
3 |
The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. | source: webster1913
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