neediness
Craving constant reassurance
Neediness is the quality of requiring excessive attention, reassurance, or emotional support from others.
It often carries negative connotations, suggesting someone is clingy or dependent: His constant texting came across as neediness.
The word can also describe material want—the neediness of refugees, the neediness of underfunded schools—though this sense is less common than the emotional one.
Excessive need for closeness
- insecurityUncertainty about oneself
- attachmentConnection or fondness
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
- dependenceState of needing another
high-maintenance · demanding · codependency · possessiveness · jealousy · smothering · desperation · validation-seeking
State of needing support
- relianceState of needing support
- supportTo uphold or sustain
- interdependenceReciprocal reliance between entities
- attachmentConnection or fondness
clinging · helplessness · codependency · enmeshment · symbiosis · leaning · over-reliance · hand-holding
Intense prolonged craving
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- piningAching with prolonged desire
- desireIntense wanting
- achingExperiencing dull pain
wistfulness · wanting · hunger · thirst · desperation · urgency · obsession · infatuation
Severe lack of resources
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
- wantTo desire something
- lackDeficiency or absence
hardship · destitution · indigence · impoverishment · insufficiency · deficiency · shortage · privation
Persistent apprehensive distress
- fearfulnessChronic state of dread
- timidityFearful lack of courage
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- nervousnessState of anxious unease
self-consciousness · inferiority · neuroticism · paranoia · distrust · hesitation · trepidation · overthinking
clinginess
Excessive need for closeness
- insecurityUncertainty about oneself
- attachmentConnection or fondness
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
dependence · high-maintenance · demanding · codependency · possessiveness · jealousy · smothering · desperation · validation-seeking · attention-seeking
dependency
State of needing support
- relianceState of needing support
- supportTo uphold or sustain
- interdependenceReciprocal reliance between entities
attachment · clinging · helplessness · codependency · enmeshment · symbiosis · leaning · over-reliance · hand-holding · enabling
yearning
Intense prolonged craving
aching · wistfulness · wanting · hunger · thirst · desperation · urgency · obsession · infatuation · languishing
poverty
Severe lack of resources
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
- wantTo desire something
lack · hardship · destitution · indigence · impoverishment · insufficiency · deficiency · shortage · privation · penury
anxiety
Persistent apprehensive distress
- fearfulnessChronic state of dread
- timidityFearful lack of courage
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
nervousness · self-consciousness · inferiority · neuroticism · paranoia · distrust · hesitation · trepidation · overthinking · hypervigilance
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- dependencedepend, depend on, dependency, rely, rely on
- hardshiphardship, adversity, difficulty, trouble, struggle
- turn-offsick, red flag, red flags, dealbreaker, dealbreakers
- Codependencycodependency, enabling, enmeshment, people-pleasing, caretaking
- unhealthy attachmentclinginess, codependency, enmeshment, clingy, smothering
needinessself-sufficiency
Independence from outside aid
independence · self-reliance · autonomy · secure attachment · detachment
needinessabundance
Ample supply, overflowing
affluence · wealth · prosperity · plenty · opulence
needinessconfidence
Self-assurance or trust
security · self-assurance · groundedness · self-confidence · contentment
need, needed, needs, needy, needing, needless, unneeded, needful, needfulness