emotional need

collocation in English

meaningsofemotionalandneed

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emotional
adjective
uk
/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən.əl/us
/ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən.əl/
relating to ...
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need
noun
uk
/niːd/us
/niːd/
the state of having to have something that you do not have, especially something that you must have so that you can have a ...
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(Definition ofemotionalandneedfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofemotional need

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As with other nations, there was the wish to satisfy a deepemotionalneed.
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This amendment addresses that need, and theemotionalneedhere is perhaps quite as urgent as the material.
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Applicants for this new remedy may have anemotionalneedto have the facts about their origins clarified.
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It reminds us that in the institutional field much has still to be done to assist those in such great psychological andemotionalneed.
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I must observe also that even the most revolutionary promoters of man as a rational being recognised that underlyingemotionalneed.
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Generally, acts of overbelief are justified onemotionalneedor faith, rather than evidence.
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The form of reciprocation can also be influenced by the level ofemotionalneed.
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Their intellectual abhorrence of tradition and repetition usually bemoans a deeperemotionalneedfor constant novelty and change.
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Shamblin teaches that there are two very different needs in each person: a need for food and anemotionalneed.
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The illusion is weaker for depressed individuals and is stronger when individuals have anemotionalneedto control the outcome.
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This voluntary organisation began with this telephone, and today staffs a 24-hour telephone hot-line for people inemotionalneed.
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Most love addicts start out attempting to meet some known or unknownemotionalneed, then become dependent on the intoxicating feelings' of being in love itself.
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If the target seems to lose interest, the bot attempts to make it feel guilty by expressing sentiments of loneliness andemotionalneedthrough strategic, formulated responses, ultimately prolonging interaction.
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