different between wishing vs wanting

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?sh??ng, IPA^(key): /?w????/
• Rhymes: -????
• Homophone: whishing (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
• Hyphenation: wish?ing

Verb

wishing

1. present participle of wish

Noun

wishing (plural wishings)

1. The act of making a wish.
   • 1852, Chambers's Papers for the People (volumes 9-10, page 167)

     Discourse there was none; only exclamations and interjections, and wishings, wishings, wishings that Bessy were but his own for ever — his dear, dear little wife, as assuredly one day she should be!

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w?nt??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?nt??/
• Rhymes: -?nt??

Etymology 1

From Middle English wantyng, wantynge, wantand, equivalent to want +? -ing.

Adjective

wanting (comparative more wanting, superlative most wanting)

1. That wants or desires.
2. Absent or lacking.
   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 171,

     […] but where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

3. Deficient.

Derived terms

• wantingly

Translations

Preposition

wanting

1. Without, except, but.
2. Less, short of, minus.

Verb

wanting

1. present participle of want

Etymology 2

From Middle English wantyng, wantynge, equivalent to want +? -ing.

Noun

wanting (countable and uncountable, plural wantings)

1. The state of wanting something; desire.
   • 2004, Joseph H. Casey S.J., Life, Love, and Sex

     Choice occurs only when we experience a conflict of wantings.