lack

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/læk/]

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1. lack (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want, dearth.

Example: It is a question of money, or lack of same.

2. lack (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.

Example: In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.

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