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How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: deficiency, want
Within this category: absence, dearth, mineral deficiency, stringency
