Neediness vs Exhaustion - What's the difference?
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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 point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.
Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 (dated, chemistry) The removal (by percolation etc) of an active medicinal constituent from plant material.
(dated, physics) The removal of all air from a vessel (the creation of a vacuum).
(maths) An exhaustive procedure
Neediness is a related term of exhaustion.
As nouns the difference between neediness and exhaustion
is that neediness is the characteristic of being needy while exhaustion is the point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.neediness
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Noun
(es)- The kind of family neediness experienced by homemakers differed between classes.
exhaustion
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Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion , prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}