different between deficiency vs deprivation

English

Etymology

From deficit +? -ency. Compare Latin d?ficientia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: d?f??sh?ns?, IPA^(key): /d??f???nsi/

Noun

deficiency (countable and uncountable, plural deficiencies)

1. (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
2. (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
3. (geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
4. (geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.

Antonyms

• sufficiency
• excess

Translations

Further reading

• deficiency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?p.??.ve???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

deprivation (countable and uncountable, plural deprivations)

1. (countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
2. (uncountable) The state of being deprived

   Synonyms: privation, loss, want, bereavement

3. (countable) The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
4. (followed by “of”) lack

Usage notes

• Distinguish from depravation.

Translations

Danish

Noun

deprivation c (singular definite deprivationen, plural indefinite deprivationer)

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Declension

Further reading

• “deprivation” in Den Danske Ordbog