Need and Privilege

Need

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

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

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

Privilege noun - Something granted as a special favor.

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Need and privilege are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Need" instead a noun "Privilege".

Nearby Words: privileged, privileging

human	human need	human privilege
high	high need	high privilege
special	special need	special privilege
particular	particular need	particular privilege
Other adjectives: real, great, huge, social, personal, religious, occasional.

A doctor gives his patient's blood to a police investigator who couldn't get a warrant for the suspect's DNA, pitting the need to get a serial rapist off the streets against doctor-patient privilege.

Source: Debate and Switch
All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.—Anne Elliot, PersuasionJane Austen's last completed novel, published posthumously.

Source: Literature / Persuasion
He realized that he didn't really need to be a supervillain to get what he wanted, because he had a Compelling Voice (actually, super-pheromones, but it works the same), so people would just hand him whatever he wanted, and thank him for the privilege.

Source: Resignations Not Accepted

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