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unneededness

unneededness noun: the state of being unneeded or unnecessary.

Noun

unneededness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The state of being unneeded or unnecessary.
    • As noted, many managers are concerned about the pervasiveness and effects of the "left-out" feeling as a factor in morale. It may generate feelings that come close to loneliness and "unneededness," especially at higher levels.1970, Dale Yoder, Personnel Management and Industrial Relations, 6th edition, Eaglewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, page 570
    • The semantic patch also tries to clean up unneeded calls to platform_set_drvdata, but the detection of unneededness is not very sophisticated, and so it may delete calls that are actually needed.2011 December 29, Julia Lawall, “[PATCH 0/10] use devm_ functions”, in linux.kernel (Usenet)
    Antonyms:
    neededness

Antonyms of unneededness

Origin of unneededness

From unneeded + -ness.

Questions about unneededness

What does unneededness mean?
Unneededness means the state of being unneeded or unnecessary.
What part of speech is unneededness?
Unneededness is a noun.

Words near unneededness in the dictionary

  1. unnecessities
  2. unnecessity
  3. unneddylated
  4. unneeded
  5. unneededly
  6. unneededness
  7. unneedful
  8. unneedfully
  9. unneedfulness
  10. unneeding
  11. unneedled

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