neededness

Noun

1. The state of being needed or necessary.
   • 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...
   • All right then . . . what about . . . neededness? D'you know, Mandy, that's what's the matter with me today! I've lost my neededness! - 2000, Susan Sallis, The Apple Barrel, London [and others]: Bantam Press, →ISBN,...

   Antonyms: unneededness

2. Dependency; the state of one segment of code requiring another segment to complete.
   • 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. - 1994, Niels...