neediness
[ nee-dee-nis ]
/ ˈni di nɪs /
noun
a condition of want or need; poverty; indigence.
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Example sentences 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
British Dictionary definitions for neediness
neediness
/ (ˈniːdɪnɪs) /
noun
the state of being needy; poverty