NEED

Need

A need is something that is necessary for organisms to live a healthy life. Needs are distinguished from wants because a deficiency would cause a clear negative outcome, such as dysfunction or death. Needs can be objective and physical, such as food, or they can be subjective and psychological, such as the need for self-esteem. On a social level, needs are sometimes controversial. Understanding needs and wants is an issue in the fields of politics, social science, and philosophy.

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need

Noun

  1. A requirement for something.
    There's no need to speculate; we can easily find out for sure.
    She grew irritated with his constant need for attention.
    Our needs are not being met.
  2. Something required.
    I've always tried to have few needs beyond food, clothing and shelter.
  3. Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

Verb

  1. To be necessary (to someone).
  2. To have an absolute requirement for.
  3. To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
  4. To be obliged or required (to do something).
  5. To be required; to be necessary.


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