unneededness
nounEtymology From unneeded + -ness.
1
Rare The state of being unneeded or unnecessary.
- As noted, many managers are concerned about the pervasiveness and effects of the "left-out" feeling as a factor in morale. It may generate feelings that come close to loneliness and "unneededness," especially at higher levels.1970, Dale Yoder, Personnel Management and Industrial Relations, 6th edition, Eaglewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, page 570:
- The semantic patch also tries to clean up unneeded calls to platform_set_drvdata, but the detection of unneededness is not very sophisticated, and so it may delete calls that are actually needed.2011 December 29, Julia Lawall, “[PATCH 0/10] use devm_ functions”, in linux.kernel (Usenet):