Noun: neediness nee-dee-nus
- The quality of needing attention and affection and reassurance to a marked degree
"he recognized her neediness but had no time to respond to it"
- A state of extreme poverty
"Their neediness was apparent in their worn-out clothes and gaunt faces";
- privation, want, deprivation
Type of: immiseration, immiserisation [Brit], immiserization, impoverishment, poorness, poverty, quality
Encyclopedia: Neediness