Difference between Wanting and Missing

What is the difference between Wanting and Missing?

Wanting as an adjective is absent or lacking. while Missing as an adjective is not able to be located; gone; absent; lost.

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: Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Missing

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To fail to hit.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Not able to be located; gone; absent; lost.(of an internal combustion engine) To be running roughly due an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault

Example sentence: You can't recover memories of a missing event. That's a fallacy.

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

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