• n.
    ⦿the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
    lexical concept
  • for want of a nail the shoe was lost
  • there is a serious lack of insight into the problem
  • water is the critical deficiency in desert regions

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:deficiency
  2. enl:lack
  3. enl:want
wn:interlingual indexili:i112941
wn:eq synonymdn:mangel§1

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • deficiencylackwant
  • lack