Usually means: Excessive dependency on others emotionally.
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  1. neediness: Merriam-Webster
  2. neediness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. neediness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. neediness: Vocabulary.com
  5. neediness: Wordnik
  6. neediness: Wiktionary
  7. neediness: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. neediness: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Neediness, neediness: Dictionary.com
  10. Neediness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. neediness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Neediness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. neediness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. neediness: FreeDictionary.org
  15. neediness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. neediness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. neediness: Legal dictionary

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  1. neediness: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (neediness)

▸ noun:  The characteristic of being needy.

Similar:
necessitude, needfulness, needihood, needyhood, neededness, necessity, necessariness, necessitousness, hungriness, unnecessariness, more...

Opposite:
self-sufficiency, self-reliance

Types:
emotional neediness, financial neediness, physical neediness, social neediness, more...

Adjectives:
own, emotional, intense, human, extreme, desperate, excessive, sexual, personal, overwhelming, general



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Similar:
necessitude, needfulness, needihood, needyhood, neededness, necessity, necessariness, necessitousness, hungriness, unnecessariness, more...

Opposite:
self-sufficiency, self-reliance

Types:
emotional neediness, financial neediness, physical neediness, social neediness, more...

Adjectives:
own, emotional, intense, human, extreme, desperate, excessive, sexual, personal, overwhelming, general



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