Synonyms and related words :
absence, adulteration, beggary, broken thread, brokenness, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deprivation, destitution, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, discontinuousness, discreteness, disjunction, drought, episode, erroneousness, fallibility, famine, faultiness, fitfulness, immaturity, impairment, imperfection, impoverishment, impurity, inaccuracy, inadequacy, inadequateness, incoherence, inexactitude, inexactness, intermittence, irregularity, need, non sequitur, noncontinuance, nonlinearity, nonseriality, nonuniformity, omission, parenthesis, patchiness, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, sketchiness, starvation, undevelopment, unevenness, unperfectedness, unsoundness, want, wantage