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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
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The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. | | source: webster1913
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