The fact or condition of missing, having lost, or being without a person or thing; an instance of this; loss, lack, deprivation. Frequently with of…

being without, lacking, want; losing, loss.

Absence, privation, lack; disadvantage or regret caused by loss or absence. Formerly also: non-occurrence. Obsolete.

The condition of being without or in want of (something); deficiency.

The condition of being without something; the absence or deficiency of something; a lack. Obsolete.

Want or lack of a thing. Obsolete.

(a) The condition of wanting or being lacking (of or †in anything); want. (b) The condition of being abandoned or left helpless, of being…

Deficiency, dearth, scarcity; smallness of amount. Also: want of or deficiency in or of some property, ingredient, etc.; the condition of being…

Loss; a privation. Cf. miss, n.1 1 2.

Lack of provision or preparedness, improvision.

†(a) the fact of lacking something; deficiency, want (obsolete); (b) the fact of wanting to do something; desire for something.

The state of being without; wantingness, want.

In extended use: poverty, lack; bareness, starkness.

The state or condition of being destitute.