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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.

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.