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Want of affability or sociability; reticence.

Want of animation; lifeless; dullness.

To produce inanition in; to exhaust for want of nourishment. [R.]

The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result. Feeble from inanition, inert from weariness. Landor. Repletio…

Want of seriousness; aimlessness; frivolity.

Want of appetency; want of desire.

Want of application, attention, or diligence; negligence; indolence.

Want of appreciation.

Want of apprehension.

Want of aptitude.

Want of attention, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect. Novel lays attract our ravished ears; But old, the mind inattention hears. Pope.

Want of legal qualifications, or of legal power; as, incapability of holding an office.

Wanting in ability or qualification for the purpose or end in view; not large enough to contain or hold; deficient in physical strength, mental or moral power, etc.; not capable; as, incapable of holding a certain quantity of liquid; incapable of endurance, of comprehension, of perseverance, of reform, etc.…

Want of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability.

Want of caution. Pope.

Want of celebrity or distinction; obscurity. [R.] Coleridge.

To perfume with, or as with, incense. "Incensed with wanton sweets." Marston.

Want of charity. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Want of circumspection. Sir T. Browne.

The quality or state of being uncivil; want of courtesy; rudeness of manner; impoliteness. Shak. Tillotson.