neediness
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a state of extreme poverty
Types & categories
- impoverishment hypernym
Related & opposite
- impoverish derivation
- strip derivation
- want derivation
- needy derivation
Sense 2 noun
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
Types & categories
- quality hypernym
Related & opposite
- needy derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | impoverish |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | strip |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | want |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | needy |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | impoverishment |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | needy |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | quality |