puutteellisuus — meaning in English
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English meaning
- deficiency noun A lack or shortage of something necessary, especially for health.
- demerit noun A quality of being inadequate; a disadvantage, a fault.
- imperfection noun The state or quality of being imperfect or flawed.
- necessity noun The state of being required or unavoidable.
Senses
puutteellisuus is used for these senses in English:
- deficiency (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
- demerit A quality of being inadequate; a disadvantage, a fault.
- imperfection (uncountable) Those qualities or features that are imperfect; the characteristic, state, or quality of being imperfect.
- necessity The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
- necessity The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
demerit — full definition
- noun A quality of being inadequate; a disadvantage, a fault.
- noun A mark given for bad conduct to a person attending an educational institution or serving in the army.
- noun That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.