What's the difference between needless and needlessness?

Needless


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no need.
  • (a.) Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses.
  • (a.) Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Late-night hosts blast Trumpcare: 'Needless suffering for low and middle-income people' Read more In the Harvard study, the researchers had 9,000 people in their dataset – enough that they were able to ensure they were really measuring the impact of a lack of health insurance.
  • (2) Needless to say, the place is now awash in self-flagellation.
  • (3) Above all, MPs should vote to stop needless misery for families afflicted by this rare but terrible disorder.
  • (4) Acknowledging that such needless expense is meat and drink to enemies of the European idea, MEPs led by the parliament's vice-president, Edward McMillan-Scott, have launched a "Single Seat" campaign to abandon "Alcatraz", as the Strasbourg building is known to some of its inmates.
  • (5) Its chief executive, Andy Cole, warned: "The lives of England's sickest babies are at risk by needless cuts to the neonatal nursing workforce."
  • (6) It permits use of both feet to operate surgical modalities, decreases microscope positioning time, and decreases needless hand movements.
  • (7) Shelvey had been told before the game by his manager to “wise up” against needless bookings.
  • (8) Cameroon midfielder Alex Song was sent off before half-time for a needless elbow in the back of Croatia's Mario Mandzukic near the halfway line, leaving his side to battle with 10 men for the majority of the game.
  • (9) Needless pain and anxiety can therefore be avoided for many AML patients.
  • (10) Needlessly high doses are bound to cause avoidable unwanted effects in a proportion of patients.
  • (11) Needless to say, BoKlok's brains have grappled with the conundrum.
  • (12) Millions of British will pay a higher price – the needless squandering of their lives.
  • (13) In some cases these errors led to needless radiotherapy and to an unnecessarily poor prognosis being given.
  • (14) This clause has given developers a much freer licence to force their plans through the system regardless of constraints, on the basis that local planning policies represent needless “burdens” on their pockets.
  • (15) 4.32pm BST Summary Here's a summary of what the president said: • The shutdown hurt the economy and families in a needless "self-inflicted crisis."
  • (16) A union spokesman said: "Unite has made recommendations to Ineos as way to save jobs and prevent needless harm to this plant and the local community.
  • (17) Just look at the needless intermediary company created by Dmitry Firtash in 2004 to buy gas from Russia and sell it to Ukraine, making more than $600m a year.
  • (18) Use of this technic will spare some patients needless radical procedures and should improve long-term cure rates by identifying those patients with truly localized disease for curative resections.
  • (19) If Moyes felt reprieved when Andros Townsend cut inside and curled a late shot wide, his afternoon was ruined when Paddy McNair needlessly conceded a free-kick, taken near the corner flag by Lee Chung-yong and, deep into stoppage time, an unmarked Benteke rose imperiously to clinch it.
  • (20) The assumption that it is often prevents informed clinical intervention and leads to needless suffering.

Needlessness


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Late-night hosts blast Trumpcare: 'Needless suffering for low and middle-income people' Read more In the Harvard study, the researchers had 9,000 people in their dataset – enough that they were able to ensure they were really measuring the impact of a lack of health insurance.
  • (2) Needless to say, the place is now awash in self-flagellation.
  • (3) Above all, MPs should vote to stop needless misery for families afflicted by this rare but terrible disorder.
  • (4) Acknowledging that such needless expense is meat and drink to enemies of the European idea, MEPs led by the parliament's vice-president, Edward McMillan-Scott, have launched a "Single Seat" campaign to abandon "Alcatraz", as the Strasbourg building is known to some of its inmates.
  • (5) Its chief executive, Andy Cole, warned: "The lives of England's sickest babies are at risk by needless cuts to the neonatal nursing workforce."
  • (6) It permits use of both feet to operate surgical modalities, decreases microscope positioning time, and decreases needless hand movements.
  • (7) Shelvey had been told before the game by his manager to “wise up” against needless bookings.
  • (8) Cameroon midfielder Alex Song was sent off before half-time for a needless elbow in the back of Croatia's Mario Mandzukic near the halfway line, leaving his side to battle with 10 men for the majority of the game.
  • (9) Needless pain and anxiety can therefore be avoided for many AML patients.
  • (10) Needlessly high doses are bound to cause avoidable unwanted effects in a proportion of patients.
  • (11) Needless to say, BoKlok's brains have grappled with the conundrum.
  • (12) Millions of British will pay a higher price – the needless squandering of their lives.
  • (13) In some cases these errors led to needless radiotherapy and to an unnecessarily poor prognosis being given.
  • (14) This clause has given developers a much freer licence to force their plans through the system regardless of constraints, on the basis that local planning policies represent needless “burdens” on their pockets.
  • (15) 4.32pm BST Summary Here's a summary of what the president said: • The shutdown hurt the economy and families in a needless "self-inflicted crisis."
  • (16) A union spokesman said: "Unite has made recommendations to Ineos as way to save jobs and prevent needless harm to this plant and the local community.
  • (17) Just look at the needless intermediary company created by Dmitry Firtash in 2004 to buy gas from Russia and sell it to Ukraine, making more than $600m a year.
  • (18) Use of this technic will spare some patients needless radical procedures and should improve long-term cure rates by identifying those patients with truly localized disease for curative resections.
  • (19) If Moyes felt reprieved when Andros Townsend cut inside and curled a late shot wide, his afternoon was ruined when Paddy McNair needlessly conceded a free-kick, taken near the corner flag by Lee Chung-yong and, deep into stoppage time, an unmarked Benteke rose imperiously to clinch it.
  • (20) The assumption that it is often prevents informed clinical intervention and leads to needless suffering.

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