Wanting vs Demonstration - What's the difference?
wanting | demonstration |
Absent or lacking.
* 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 171,
The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
An event at which something will be demonstrated.
A public display of group opinion.
A show of military force.
A mathematical proof.
* , s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
As nouns the difference between wanting and demonstration
is that wanting is the state of wanting something; desire while demonstration is demonstration (act of showing and explaining).As an adjective wanting
is absent or lacking.As a preposition wanting
is without.As a verb wanting
is .wanting
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- but where other powers of entertainment are wanting , the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
Derived terms
* wantinglyVerb
(head)demonstration
English
Noun
(en noun)- I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.
- He read the proposition. So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.
