Synonyms and related words :
adulteration, attrition, curtailment, cut, cutting, damage, debilitation, decrease, decrement, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, depletion, depreciation, derogation, deterioration, detraction, detriment, diminution, dip, disadvantage, disparagement, drawback, enfeeblement, erroneousness, extraction, fallibility, faultiness, flaw, handicap, harm, hurt, immaturity, imperfection, impurity, inaccuracy, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompleteness, inexactitude, inexactness, injury, lack, lessening, liability, loss, loss of ground, marring, mediocrity, mischief, patchiness, prejudice, reduction, remission, retraction, retrenchment, shortage, shortcoming, shortening, shrinkage, sketchiness, step backward, truncation, undermining, undevelopment, unevenness, unperfectedness, unsoundness, vitiation, want, weakening, worsening