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The gap between having and craving, eternally one purchase away from closing.
means To desire or wish for something, or alternatively to lack or be without it.
from From Old Norse 'vanta,' to lack or be missing — the same icy root that gives us 'wane' and 'vain' (in its sense of empty). Tellingly, the oldest meaning was pure absence: a 'want' was a gap, a shortfall, a hole where something should be. The flip from lacking a thing to craving it came naturally — you can only yearn for what you don't yet hold — and so the word kept both faces, the empty and the longing, forever describing the same wound from opposite sides.
- old root
- From Norse vanta, meaning to lack or be missing
- double life
- Means both desire and deprivation simultaneously
- economics core
- Infinite wants meeting finite means defines the entire field
- buddhist target
- Identified as the root of suffering itself
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want ads — classified newspaper advertisements section that peaked in 20th century newspapers before craigslist