Difference between Lacking and Wanting

What is the difference between Lacking and Wanting?

Lacking as a verb is to be without, to need, to require. while Wanting as a verb is to wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand.

Lacking

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To be without, to need, to require.

Example sentence: A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

Wanting

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Absent or lacking.

Part of speech: preposition

Definition: without

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand.

Example sentence: All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

We hope you now know whether to use Lacking or Wanting in your sentence.

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