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The state of being uncivilized; want of civilization; barbarism.

Want of civism; want of patriotism or love to one's country; unfriendliness to one's state or government. [R.] Macaulay.

The state or quality of being inclement; want of clemency; want of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; severity. The inclemency of the late pope. Bp. Hall.

Want of thought, or of the power of thinking; thoughtlessness; unreasonableness. 'T is folly and incogitancy to argue anything, one way or the other, from the designs of a sort of beings with whom we so little communicate. Glanvill.

Not cogitative; not thinking; wanting the power of thought; as, a vegetable is an incogitative being. Locke.

The quality of being incogitative; want of thought or of the power of thinking. Wollaston.

The quality or state of being incoherent; want of coherence; want of cohesion or adherence. Boyle.

Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances. Woodward.

The quality of being incoincident; want of coincidence. [R.]

Want of comity; incivility; rudeness. [R.]

al of sufficient measure or extent; not adequate; as, our means are incommensurate to our wants.

e to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want of room.

Want of compassion or pity. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

The quality or state of being incompetent; want of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts. "Some inherent incompetency." Gladstone.

Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit. Incompetent to perform the duties of the place. Macaulay.

Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower. Incomplete equation (Alg.), an equation some of whose terms are wanting; or one in which the coefficient of some one or more of the powers of the unknown quantity is equal to 0.

Want of completion; incompleteness. Smart.

Want of comprehension or understanding. "These mazes and incomprehensions." Bacon.

Want of concinnity or congruousness; unsuitableness. There is an inconcinnity in admitting these words. Trench.

Want of conformity; nonconformity. [Obs.]