Concern and Need

Concern

Concern noun - A commercial or industrial activity or organization.

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Need and concern are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Need" instead a noun "Concern".

Need noun - A state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful.

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Concern and need are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Concern" instead a noun "Need".

Nearby Words: needed, needs, needy, needless, needful

particular	particular concern	particular need
legitimate	legitimate concern	legitimate need
genuine	genuine concern	genuine need
deep	deep concern	deep need
Other adjectives: obvious, actual, real, constant, large, big, great, serious, huge, little, personal, practical, immediate, apparent, less, pressing, greater, last, greatest.

This is not out of concern for their safety, but out of the fact that they need fabricated identities in order to not conflict with their alternate timeline selves.

Source: Witness Protection
So Reimu is either driven primarily by a need for money or out of genuine concern for people, and both versions are equally canon.

Source: Alternative Character Interpretation / Video Games
For some of the patrons, their need for coffee remains more of a concern than the fact that there's a killer on the loose!

Source: Literature / Doctor Who 11 Doctors 11 Stories

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