shortcoming (n.)

• absence
• adulteration
• asymmetry
• beggary
• blemish
• bug
• catch
• contrariety
• crack
• defect
• defection
• defectiveness
• deficiency
• deficit
• demerit
• deprivation
• destitution
• difference
• disequilibrium
• disparity
• disproportion
• drawback
• drought
• erroneousness
• failing
• failure
• fallibility
• famine
• fault
• faultiness
• flaw
• foible
• frailty
• heterogeneity
• hole
• imbalance
• immaturity
• impairment
• imperfection
• impoverishment
• impurity
• inaccuracy
• inadequacy
• inadequateness
• incompleteness
• inequality
• inequity
• inexactitude
• inexactness
• infirmity
• injustice
• insufficiency
• irregularity
• kink
• lack
• liability
• mediocrity
• need
• nonuniformity
• odds
• omission
• patchiness
• problem
• rift
• shortage
• shortfall
• sin
• sketchiness
• snag
• starvation
• taint
• unbalance
• unevenness
• unsoundness
• want
• weakness