Usually means: Lack of necessity or justification.
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  1. needlessness: Merriam-Webster
  2. needlessness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. needlessness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. needlessness: Wordnik
  5. needlessness: Wiktionary
  6. needlessness: Dictionary.com
  7. needlessness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. needlessness: FreeDictionary.org
  9. needlessness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. needlessness: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (needlessness)

▸ noun:  the state or characteristic of being needless

Similar:
unneededness, unneedfulness, unnecessity, withoutness, naturelessness, meaninglessness, purposelessness, contentlessness, pointlessness, valuelessness, more...

Opposite:
necessity, need

Adjectives:
utter, apparent, abstract, very, own, unjustifiable, partial

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Similar:
unneededness, unneedfulness, unnecessity, withoutness, naturelessness, meaninglessness, purposelessness, contentlessness, pointlessness, valuelessness, more...

Opposite:
necessity, need

Adjectives:
utter, apparent, abstract, very, own, unjustifiable, partial



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