The word 'neediness' is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe a state of being overly dependent on others for emotional or material needs. Example: The therapist suggested that Jane's constant neediness towards her partner may be a result of her unresolved childhood issues.
Free legal clinics allow law-school professors and students to do good for the needy, keep such neediness fresh in their mind, and practise making judgment calls about tough decisions qualities not taught, supposedly, to MBA students sitting placidly in their classroom reading case studies about Bain Capital.
Obama is, above all, calm, cool — not needy in any way, and that absence of neediness, that pervasive cool, which reads to even his admirers at times like a slight, ironic detachment from his own eloquence, must seem to his detractors like an infuriating arrogance and remoteness.
"He comes from the neediest profession of all, except for acting, but he is not needy and he doesn't fully understand the neediness of others; it's an abstraction to him," says Jonathan Alter, who wrote "The Promise" about Obama's first year in office and is working on a sequel.
But in all cases, the strong scent of neediness comes off their planned Mipim session titles ("Croydon: the economic powerhouse of the south-east") – and forces them into the kind of rotten deals that jeopardise the livelihoods of their residents.
After a terrible first debate performance during the 2012 election, Mr Obama confides that he agrees with a pundit who suggests he lacks the "neediness" that drives most politicians to perform in pursuit of "validation".
Matthew Tennyson is scintillating as Eric – an effete, friendly coquet with a faint hint of spite – and Ben Batt is another name to watch, oscillating as the brutalised squaddie between neediness and menace.
The neediness, the control, the mind games, and ultimately the betrayal at the heart of this often poisonous sibling rivalry, is never less than fascinating.
In this respect Beattie's McArthur is strongly set up, her neuroses about whether her greatest result in a case was a lie driving her to overwork, hallucination and alcohol abuse, while her 18-year-old daughter Alexandra's (a strong Sara Vickers) neediness rules the home, manifesting itself as noisy sex in the next room and an attempt to wrest away the Chalmers story for her own ambitious ends.
"Exaggerated characters or heartstring-pullers, they knew how to pose, how to present the face, the posture of neediness, dereliction, despair – it was their livelihood, this ability".
The "Childe Harold" fan archive reveals a hidden continent of loneliness, fantasy and sheer neediness.
The first is our growing neediness and search for validation.
