Home › Words › W › wantingnesswantingnesswantingness means the quality of wanting or desiring something.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, wantingness ranks #13,405 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom wanting + -ness.nounThe quality of wanting or desiring something.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).