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Neediness vs Dearth - What's the difference?

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Neediness is a related term of dearth.


As nouns the difference between neediness and dearth

is that neediness is the characteristic of being needy while dearth is a period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.

neediness

English

Noun

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  • The characteristic of being needy.
  • * 1982 , Julie A. Matthaei, An Economic History of Women in America: Women's Work, the Sexual Division of Labor, and the Development of Capitalism , page 247
  • The kind of family neediness experienced by homemakers differed between classes.

    dearth

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rfc-sense) A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
  • (by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
  • * 1608 , William Shakespeare, King Lear :
  • I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily: as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth , dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.
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  • (obsolete) Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.
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  • Synonyms

    * (period when food is rare) famine, shortage * (scarcity) paucity, scarcity

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