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needfulness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of needfulness

a state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful

I can scarcely describe my needfulness for a hot shower after a hard-fought game of racquetball

Synonyms of needfulness

absence, lack, need, want

Words Related to needfulness

deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency

dearth, meagerness, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, skimpiness

deprivation, famishment, privation

demand, essential, necessity, requirement, requisite

Near Antonyms of needfulness

adequacy, enough, sufficiency

fund, pool, stock, supply

excess, fill, overabundance, oversupply, plenty, surfeit, surplus

hoard, stockpile

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