NEEDING

A condition requiring relief

Example: "She satisfied his need for affection"

• demand  10

• condition  12
• status  6

• deficiency  21
• lack  10
• want  7
• necessity  14

Anything that is necessary but lacking

Example: "He had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"

• want  7

The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior

Example: "We did not understand his motivation"

• motivation  15
• motive  11

• psychological feature

• life  7
• rational motive
• irrational motive
• impulse  11
• • urge  5
  • ethical motive
  • ethics  11
  • morality  13
  • morals  8
  • mental energy
  • psychic energy
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A state of extreme poverty or destitution

Example: "Their indigence appalled him"

• indigence  13
• pauperism  15
• pauperization  26
• penury  11

• impoverishment  26
• poorness  10
• poverty  15

• beggary  14
• mendicancy  20
• mendicity  17