Antonyms for needfulness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : need-fuh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈnid fəl |
Definition of needfulness
Origin :- late 12c., niedfulle, "needy," from need (n.) + -ful. Meaning "characterized by need" is from mid-13c.; meaning "indispensable" is from mid-14c.; noun meaning "what is necessary" is from 1709. Colloquial sense of "cash" is recorded from 1774 in phrase the needful "money." Related: Needfully.
- As in necessity : noun need, essentiality
- As in exigency : noun difficulty
- As in exigency/exigence : noun difficulty; demand
- But the señor, who already has studied through ten years, will understand the needfulness of this short discipline.
- Extract from : « The Aztec Treasure-House » by Thomas Allibone Janvier
Synonyms for needfulness
- acuteness
- call
- cause
- claim
- compulsion
- constraint
- contingency
- crisis
- criticalness
- crossroad
- demand
- demandingness
- desideratum
- dilemma
- distress
- duress
- emergency
- essence
- essential
- exaction
- exigence
- exigency
- extremity
- fix
- fundamental
- godsend
- hardship
- imperative
- imperativeness
- indispensability
- inevitability
- inexorableness
- jam
- juncture
- life or death
- must
- necessary
- necessity
- need
- needfulness
- no alternative
- no choice
- obligation
- pass
- pickle
- pinch
- plight
- precondition
- predicament
- prerequisite
- pressingness
- pressure
- privation
- quandary
- requirement
- requisite
- scrape
- sine qua non
- stress
- turning point
- undeniability
- urgency
- vicissitude
- vital part
- vitals
- want
- wont
- zero hour
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