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Webster 1913 Edition


Neediness

Need′i-ness

(nēd′ĭ-nĕs)
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Noun.
The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.

Webster 1828 Edition


Neediness

NEEDINESS

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Noun.
[from needy] Want; poverty; indigence.

Definition 2024


neediness

neediness

English

Noun

neediness (plural needinesses)

  1. The characteristic of being needy.
    • 1982, Julie A. Matthaei, An Economic History of Women in America: Women's Work, the Sexual Division of Labor, and the Development of Capitalism, page 247
      The kind of family neediness experienced by homemakers differed between classes.

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