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Wanting vs Dearth - What's the difference?

wanting | dearth |

As nouns the difference between wanting and dearth

is that wanting is the state of wanting something; desire while dearth is a period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.

As an adjective wanting

is absent or lacking.

As a preposition wanting

is without.

As a verb wanting

is .

wanting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Absent or lacking.
  • * 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 171,
    • but where other powers of entertainment are wanting , the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

    Derived terms

    * wantingly

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • without

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The state of wanting something; desire.

    • dearth

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rfc-sense) A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
  • (by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
  • * 1608 , William Shakespeare, King Lear :
    • I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily: as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth , dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.
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  • (obsolete) Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.
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    • Synonyms

    * (period when food is rare) famine, shortage * (scarcity) paucity, scarcity

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