deficiency

Perhaps, they suggested, it was induced by unnatural protein deficiency, or by equally unnatural crowding.

His deficiencies and self-doubts, amid his epochal mission of liberation, are precisely what make him interesting.

Deficiencies in vital nutrients cause skin to dry, lips to crack, and hair to fall out.

“By sixth grade, children are aware of their deficiencies,” Porter says.

I'd like to find some more efficient means of curing these deficiencies.

Just gaze upon its deficiencies in the current crisis with North Korea.

These deficiencies were a source of mortification all his life.

It's the mountain air, which makes up for the deficiencies of the kitchen.

Your poor father, Mr. Norman, could never understand time-tables and never attempted to conceal his deficiencies.

So he ceased to reproach himself, and began to think how he might yet remedy the deficiencies of Jack's weak joints.

The exceſſes of Genius may eaſily be retrenched, but the deficiencies of Dulneſs can never be ſupplied.