deficiency
nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026
A failing, shortcoming, or lack of an adequate quantity or number.
polysemousFFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 2012
Senses
Wordset Dictionary
lack of an adequate quantity or number
Wordset Dictionary
the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
Classifications
Entity Type
Finding0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity
—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class
—80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- synonym
- inadequacylackwant
- alternatephrasing
- Deficiency
- plural
- deficiencies
- possessive
- deficiency's
- pluralpossessive
- deficiencies'