Associations to the word «Neediness»

Wiktionary

NEEDINESS, noun. The characteristic of being needy.

Dictionary definition

NEEDINESS, noun. A state of extreme poverty.
NEEDINESS, 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".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne