Crave vs. Need — What's the Difference?

To have an intense desire for.

A need is something that is necessary for an organism to live a healthy life. Needs are distinguished from wants.

To beg earnestly for

A condition or situation in which something must be supplied in order for a certain condition to be maintained or a desired state to be achieved

To have an intense desire for something

Something required or wanted; a requisite

(ambitransitive) To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.

Necessity; obligation

(transitive) To ask for earnestly; to beg; to claim.

A condition of poverty or misfortune

To call for; to require as a course of action.

To be under the necessity of or the obligation to

A formal application to a court to make a particular order.

To have need of; require

To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.

To have an obligation (to do something)

To call for, as a gratification; to long for; hence, to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food.

To be subject (to an action) by obligation

To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a craving appetite.

To want to be subject to

Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

To be in need or want.

Plead or ask for earnestly

To be necessary.

A requirement for something; something needed.

Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

(transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.

(transitive) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.

(modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).

(intransitive) To be required; to be necessary.

To be necessary (to someone).

A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.

Situation of need; peril; danger.

To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.

To be wanted; to be necessary.

Of necessity. See Needs.

A condition requiring relief;

Anything that is necessary but lacking;

The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior;

A state of extreme poverty or destitution;

Require as useful, just, or proper;

Have need of;

Have or feel a need for;