Deficiency in a sentence as a noun

If you don't eat, you end up with Vitamin B12 deficiency.

If you tell them flat out that you don't support IE6, they will see that as a deficiency in you or your agency.

A biologist works on a paper for years, and concludes that this kind of gene expression might be linked to this kind of nutrient deficiency.

Wherever there is a comment, there should be a language deficiency that prevented whatever needed to be said from being said in the language itself.

First thoughts reading up on this pretty cool bit of detective work: Since this is a deficiency in production of Pngase F, I'm not sure a simple injection of Pngase F is going to work.

Perhaps these were the hypertensive patients who were referenced in the article, voraciously eating salt due to a deficiency caused by their kidney disease?

You get almost none from vegetables, and vegans are basically all ipso facto suffering from B12 deficiency unless they take supplements or eat enriched cereal -- but most of them are quite healthy and see no problems from it.

In power since 2000, insane amount of fraud, perpetuating corruption, no free speech, no rule of law, police state and pretty much any other state-level deficiency you can think of, and at a much bigger scale than you can imagine.

But I also think these majors compliment CS because I think the largest deficiency in every other CS and engineering grad I've met is that they have a hard time communicating their ideas and debating others effectively.

A lot of people hold strongly to the hope that autism is just a set of symptoms that are triggered by something tangible and readily treatable like a nutritional deficiency or a food allergy, rather than a permanent difference in brain structure.

All the colors that impressionism has brought into fashion are unstable, so there is all the more reason to simply use them too brightly - time will tone them down only too much".Any theory of color vision deficiency that attempts to reconstruct the color balances that van Gogh actually saw should take into account the hue/value/chroma of his paints such as they possessed when originally applied, and also consider that van Gogh intentionally adjusted his aesthetic to render color schemes in expectation of future pigment degradation, and that these adjustments cannot have been an exact science.

Deficiency definitions

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"

See also: lack want

noun

lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"

See also: insufficiency inadequacy