Meanings
- rareuncountableThe state of being needed or necessary.
All right then . . . what about . . . neededness? D'you know, Mandy, that's what's the matter with me today! I've lost my neededness!
2000, Susan Sallis, The Apple Barrel, London [and others]: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 931 more example
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.
1992 December 19, Amy J. Pezzillo, “Do Women Really Want A Guy That Makes Them Laugh?”, in alt.romance (Usenet)Antonyms: unneededness
- uncountablecomputerDependency; the state of one segment of code requiring another segment to complete.
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.
1994, Niels Jørgensen, “Finding fixpoints in finite function spaces using neededness analysis and chaotic iteration”, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 864, Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISSN
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state of being needed or necessary.
Origin
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