neediness
[nee-dee-nis]
- a condition of want or need; poverty; indigence.
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Origin of neediness
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distress, privation, lack, dearth, vacancy, deficiency, want, pass, need, emptiness, bankruptcy, inadequacy, indigence, depletion, reduction, deficit, impoverishment, meagerness, hardship, insolvencyExamples 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.
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 EssaysFriedrich Schiller
But everywhere the ill-assorted marriage of pretentiousness and neediness was apparent.
The Historical Nights' EntertainmentRafael Sabatini
After a short experience of three weeks Comte returned to neediness and contentment.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3)John Morley
neediness
- the state of being needy; poverty
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