neediness
[nee-dee-nis]
noun
a condition of want or need; poverty; indigence.
RELATED WORDS
distress, privation, lack, dearth, vacancy, deficiency, want, pass, need, emptiness, bankruptcy, inadequacy, indigence, depletion, reduction, deficit, impoverishment, meagerness, hardship, insolvency
Nearby words
- needed,
- needfire,
- needful,
- needfully,
- needham,
- needle,
- needle bath,
- needle bearing,
- needle biopsy,
- needle exchange
Origin of neediness
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Examples from the Web for neediness
During the exhausting 1992 campaign I was asked if Clinton got tired of the crowds: their neediness, their wide-eyed lunging.
After a short experience of three weeks Comte returned to neediness and contentment.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3)|John MorleyBut everywhere the ill-assorted marriage of pretentiousness and neediness was apparent.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment|Rafael SabatiniBut in our day it is necessity, neediness, that prevails, and lends a degraded humanity under its iron yoke.
The Aesthetical Essays|Friedrich Schiller
neediness
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