neediness

[nee-dee-nis]

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noun

a condition of want or need; poverty; indigence.

Origin of neediness

First recorded in 1350–1400, neediness is from the Middle English word nedynes. See needy, -ness

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Related Words for neediness

distress, privation, lack, dearth, vacancy, deficiency, want, pass, need, emptiness, bankruptcy, inadequacy, indigence, depletion, reduction, deficit, impoverishment, meagerness, hardship, insolvency

Examples from the Web for neediness

Contemporary Examples of neediness

During the exhausting 1992 campaign I was asked if Clinton got tired of the crowds: their neediness, their wide-eyed lunging.
Paul Begala on Why Bill Clinton’s Still Got the Magic
Paul Begala
October 10, 2012

Historical Examples of neediness

But in our day it is necessity, neediness, that prevails, and lends a degraded humanity under its iron yoke.
The Aesthetical Essays
Friedrich Schiller
But everywhere the ill-assorted marriage of pretentiousness and neediness was apparent.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment
Rafael Sabatini
After a short experience of three weeks Comte returned to neediness and contentment.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3)
John Morley

British Dictionary definitions for neediness

neediness

noun

the state of being needy; poverty

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