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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 weak point or drawback in something.
  • 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

  1. noun A weak point or drawback in something.
  2. noun A mark recorded against someone at school or in the army for bad behavior.
  3. noun Whatever a person has earned, whether it is a reward or a punishment.
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