neededness
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neededness (uncountable)
- (rare) The state of being needed or necessary.
- Antonym: unneededness
- 1992 December 19, Amy J. Pezzillo, “Do Women Really Want A Guy That Makes Them Laugh?”, in alt.romance[1] (Usenet):
- Hey, better yet, wouldn't it be neat if society raised us to expect interdependency? You know, like where you each take care of each other...what a cool concept. Then everyone would have the security of being taken care of while feeling the pleasure and neededness of taking care of someone else.
- 2000, Susan Sallis, The Apple Barrel, London [and others]: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 93:
- All right then . . . what about . . . neededness? D'you know, Mandy, that's what's the matter with me today! I've lost my neededness!
- (computer science) Dependency; the state of one segment of code requiring another segment to complete.
- 1994, Niels Jørgensen, “Finding fixpoints in finite function spaces using neededness analysis and chaotic iteration”, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 864, Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Science+Business Media, , →ISSN:
- Such nested calls are a major source of difficulty in designing a fixpoint algorithm based on neededness analysis, because they are the reason for the dynamic nature of the neededness information.