• n.
    ⦿the quality of needing attention and affection and reassurance to a marked degree
    lexical concept
  • he recognized her neediness but had no time to respond to it

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:neediness
wn:interlingual indexili:i61851

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelneediness