Neededness
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The state of being needed or necessary. rare, uncountable
"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."
- 2 Dependency; the state of one segment of code requiring another segment to complete. uncountable
"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."
Antonyms
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More examples"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."
Etymology
From needed + -ness.
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