Difference between Deficiency and Lack

DEFICIENCY vs LACK: NOUN

The quality or condition of being deficient; incompleteness or inadequacy.
A lack or shortage, especially of something essential to health.
The state of being deficient; a lack or failing; a falling short; incompleteness, as of intelligence, attainments, or performance.
That in which a person or thing is deficient; an imperfection.
Lack of the necessary quantity, number, etc.; inadequacy; insufficiency: as, a deficiency of troops; a deficiency of blood.
Absence; loss.
The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.
The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
Inadequacy or incompleteness.
The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
Lack of an adequate quantity or number

To be without or in need of.
To be missing or deficient.
To be in need of something.
To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.
To be in want.

To pierce the hull of with shot.
See lac.
To lacquer; treat with lac.
To be wanting or deficient; come short; fail.
To be absent or away; be missing.
To be in want; suffer need.
To be wanting to; fail.
To be in want of; stand in need of; want; be without; be destitute of; fail to have or to possess.
To suffer the absence of; feel the deprivation of; miss.
To blame; reproach; speak in detraction of.
To beat. Also lacky.
Synonyms Lack, Need, Want. These words have come to overlap each other a good deal by figurative extension, and have considerable variety of peculiar idiomatic use. To lack is primarily and generally to be without, that which is lacked being generally some one thing, and a thing which is desirable, although generally not necessary or very important.
Used in the exclamatory phrase Good lack. See good.
To be insufficiently prepared

Abnormality, Shortfall, Lacunae, Shortcomings, Problem, Discrepancy, Insufficient, Flaw, Irregularity, Shortcoming, Deficient, Want, Lack, Inadequacy, Insufficiency

Reluctance, Unfamiliarity, Insufficiency, Unwillingness, Unavailability, Absence, Inability, Inadequacy, Inadequate, Insufficient, Dearth, Paucity, Want, Miss, Deficiency

Weakness, Defect, Abnormality, Shortfall, Lacunae, Shortcomings, Problem, Discrepancy, Insufficient, Flaw, Shortcoming, Deficient, Want, Lack, Inadequacy

Shortcomings, Disinterest, Reluctance, Unwillingness, Unavailability, Absence, Inability, Inadequacy, Inadequate, Insufficient, Dearth, Paucity, Want, Miss, Deficiency

This is not the same as having a deficiency, with symptoms, but signifies people at greater risk of developing a deficiency.
CMS will consider this sanction for any deficiency related to poor patient care outcomes, regardless of whether the deficiency poses immediate jeopardy.
If a mortgage lender pursues a deficiency judgment, you should hire an attorney to defend the deficiency.
Phosphorus, deficiency of Copper is the most severe mineral deficiency to grazing livestock in the tropics.
Failure to include the proper fees is a deficiency that may require a deficiency surcharge.
III deficiency shall specify the time within which the deficiency must be corrected.
Can Double Fortification of Salt with Iron and Iodine Reduce Anemia, Iron Deficiency Anemia, Iron Deficiency, Iodine Deficiency, and Functional Outcomes?
Any additional deficiency would be recognized as a premium deficiency reserve.
For Deficiency Report credit policy, see the materiel deficiency procedures.
They themselves are iodine deficiency, vitamin A deficiency and iron deficiency.

Teachers reported challenges to teaching SRH topics effectively, including lack of time, lack of appropriate skills and inadequate teaching materials.
Participative Legislation Committees lack of success, namely the lack of strong lobbying groups to defend the propositions that it approved.
There was, besides, a lack of morality and justice, a lack of austere rt!
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In addition, many students complain about a lack of camaraderie and the lack of feeling like a department.
Sharing powerlessness means sharing both lack of information and lack of control in the given situation.
Lack of knowledge: Lack of information or clear data leads to loss of time.
Constraints for all teachers included large class sizes, children at different ability levels, lack of time and lack of new textbooks.
The three main unhealthy behaviors which are changeable include lack of smoking, too much eating, and lack of physical activity.
The primary cause of ESG failures is data: lack of data, lack of standards, and lack of understanding of how to use data.

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