Synonyms of the word

neediness

• n. The characteristic of being needy.

deprivation

• n. (countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some…
• n. (uncountable) The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
• n. (countable) The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
• n. (followed by “of”) lack.

impoverishment

• n. The action of impoverishing someone.
• n. The state of being impoverished.

poorness

• n. The quality of being poor.
• n. poverty.

poverty

• n. The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
• n. Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness.

privation

• n. (philosophy) The state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed; the…
• n. The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life.
• n. The act of depriving someone of such basic necessities; deprivation.

quality

• n. (uncountable) Level of excellence.
• n. (countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.
• n. (archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.).
• n. (uncountable) The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed…
• n. (thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total…
• n. (emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI…
• adj. Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.

want

• v. (transitive) To wish for or to desire (something).
• v. (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking, not to exist.
• v. (transitive) To lack, not to have (something).
• v. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something).
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
• n. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
• n. (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence.
• n. (uncountable) Poverty.
• n. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
• n. (Britain, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.