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deficiency

/dɪˈfɪʃənsi/
noun
  1. Inadequacy or incompleteness.

  2. An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.

  3. The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.

Antonymsexcess, sufficiency

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