All neediness synonyms

noun neediness

• indigence — seriously impoverished condition; poverty.
• need — a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.
• poverty — the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. Synonyms: privation, neediness, destitution, indigence, pauperism, penury. Antonyms: riches, wealth, plenty.
• want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
• penury — extreme poverty; destitution.
• destitution — Destitution is the state of having no money or possessions.
• privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
• hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
• deprivation — If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need.
• poorness — having little or no money, goods, or other means of support: a poor family living on welfare.
• abjection — an abject state or condition
• aridity — being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
• bankruptcy — Bankruptcy is the state of being bankrupt.
• barrenness — not producing or incapable of producing offspring; sterile: a barren woman.
• beggary — extreme poverty or need
• dearth — If there is a dearth of something, there is not enough of it.
• debt — A debt is a sum of money that you owe someone.
• deficiency — Deficiency in something, especially something that your body needs, is not having enough of it.
• deficit — A deficit is the amount by which something is less than what is required or expected, especially the amount by which the total money received is less than the total money spent.
• depletion — a depleting or being depleted
• difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• emptiness — The state of containing nothing.
• exiguity — The quality of being meagre or scanty.
• famine — extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area.
• impecuniousness — The property of being impecunious.
• impoverishment — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
• inadequacy — Also, inadequateness [in-ad-i-kwit-nis] /ɪnˈæd ɪ kwɪt nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being inadequate; insufficiency.
• insolvency — the condition of being insolvent; bankruptcy.
• insufficiency — deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy: insufficiency of supplies.
• lack — something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
• meagerness — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
• necessity — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
• pass — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
• paucity — smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness: a country with a paucity of resources.
• pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
• penniless — without any money whatsoever; totally impoverished; destitute.
• penurious — extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
• pinch — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
• reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
• scarcity — insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth.
• shortage — a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
• starvation — the act or state of starving; condition of being starved.
• underdevelop — to develop (something) short of the required amount: to underdevelop film.
• vacancy — the state of being vacant; emptiness.
• impecuniosity — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
• necessitousness — The state or condition of impoverishment; material need, especially of an urgent nature.