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unneededness en · NOUN

Etymology

From unneeded + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) 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