Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

neededness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: need-ed-ness
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The state of being needed or necessary.

Uncountable

noun

Dependency; the state of one segment of code requiring another segment to complete.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Hey, better yet, wouldn't it be neat if society raised us to expect interdependency? You know, like where you each take care of each other...what a cool concept. Then everyone would have the security of being taken care of while feeling the pleasure and neededness of taking care of someone else."
"All right then . . . what about . . . neededness? D'you know, Mandy, that's what's the matter with me today! I've lost my neededness!"
"Such nested calls are a major source of difficulty in designing a fixpoint algorithm based on neededness analysis, because they are the reason for the dynamic nature of the neededness information."

Etymology

From needed + -ness.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: needed

Usage

Uncountable

Antonyms

unneededness

Questions

What does neededness mean?: The state of being needed or necessary.
Where does neededness come from?: From needed + -ness.

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