needfulness
Condition of requiring
Needfulness is the state of being necessary or required.
The word is rare; need, necessity, or neediness usually serve better.
When it appears, it typically emphasizes the essential nature of something: the needfulness of reform, the needfulness of prayer in difficult times.
Mandatory condition to fulfill
- essentialFundamentally necessary
- indispensabilityBeing absolutely necessary
- urgencyPressing need for action
- imperativeUnavoidably necessary
prerequisite · demand · exigency · must-have · criticality · pressing · vital · compulsory
Intense, persistent desire
- desireIntense wanting
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- lackDeficiency or absence
deficiency · deprivation · scarcity · poverty · insufficiency · wanting · hunger · thirst
State of needing support
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
- helplessnessLacking ability to cope
- dependencyState of needing support
- contingencyUncertain possible event
insecurity · fragility · precariousness · susceptibility · exposure · defenselessness · powerlessness · weakness
requirement
Mandatory condition to fulfill
- essentialFundamentally necessary
- indispensabilityBeing absolutely necessary
- urgencyPressing need for action
imperative · prerequisite · demand · exigency · must-have · criticality · pressing · vital · compulsory · obligatory
longing
Intense, persistent desire
lack · deficiency · deprivation · scarcity · poverty · insufficiency · wanting · hunger · thirst · privation
reliance
State of needing support
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
- helplessnessLacking ability to cope
- dependencyState of needing support
contingency · insecurity · fragility · precariousness · susceptibility · exposure · defenselessness · powerlessness · weakness · subjection
needfulnessunnecessariness
Being without need
superfluity · needlessness · dispensability · redundancy · superfluousness
need, needle, needed, needs, needy, needing, needless, unneeded, neediness