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Necessity Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Necessity? [n] anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained" [n] the condition of being essential or indispensable Synonyms \| Synonyms for Necessity: essential \| necessary \| requirement \| requisite Related Terms \| Find terms related to Necessity: absolute certainty \| absoluteness \| act of God \| assurance \| assuredness \| bare cupboard \| bare necessities \| bare subsistence \| beggarliness \| beggary \| call \| call for \| cause \| certain knowledge \| certainness \| certainty \| certitude \| coaction \| coercion \| compulsion \| compulsiveness \| condition \| constraint \| dead certainty \| decree \| definiteness \| demand \| demand for \| deprivation \| desideration \| desideratum \| destitution \| determinacy \| determinateness \| duress \| empty purse \| enforcement \| essential \| essentials \| exigency \| fate \| fatefulness \| force majeure \| forcing \| foredestiny \| foregone conclusion \| foreknowledge \| foreordination \| grinding poverty \| gripe \| hand-to-mouth existence \| homelessness \| impoverishment \| indefeasibility \| indigence \| indispensable \| indispensableness \| ineluctability \| inerrability \| inerrancy \| inescapableness \| inevasibleness \| inevitability \| inevitable accident \| inevitableness \| inexorability \| infallibilism \| infallibility \| inflexibility \| irresistibility \| irrevocability \| lack \| mendicancy \| moneylessness \| must \| must item \| necessaries \| necessities \| necessitousness \| need \| need for \| needfulness \| neediness \| nonambiguity \| noncontingency \| obligation \| obligement \| occasion \| pauperism \| pauperization \| penury \| pinch \| positiveness \| predestination \| predetermination \| preordination \| prerequirement \| prerequisite \| prescience \| privation \| probatum \| proved fact \| relentlessness \| requirement \| requisite \| requisiteness \| requisition \| restraint \| sine qua non \| sureness \| surety \| the necessary \| the needful \| truth \| unambiguity \| unavoidable casualty \| unavoidableness \| uncontrollability \| undeflectability \| unequivocalness \| univocity \| unmistakableness \| unpreventability \| unyieldingness \| vis major \| want See Also \| demand \| desideratum \| entity \| need \| need \| physical thing \| requisiteness \| urgency \| want Necessity In Webster's Dictionary \Neces"sity\, n.; pl. {Necessities}. [OE. necessite, F. n['e]cessit['e], L. necessitas, fr. necesse. See {Necessary}.] 1. The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness. 2. The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want. Urge the necessity and state of times. --Shak. The extreme poverty and necessity his majesty was in. --Clarendon. 3. That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural. These should be hours for necessities, Not for delights. --Shak. What was once to me Mere matter of the fancy, now has grown The vast necessity of heart and life. --Tennyson. 4. That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality. So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. --Milton. 5. (Metaph.) The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism. {Of necessity}, by necessary consequence; by compulsion, or irresistible power; perforce. Syn: See {Need}.

Necessity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Necessity?

[n] anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
[n] the condition of being essential or indispensable

Synonyms | Synonyms for Necessity: essential | necessary | requirement | requisite

Necessity In Webster's Dictionary

\Ne*ces"si*ty\, n.; pl. {Necessities}. [OE. necessite,
F. n['e]cessit['e], L. necessitas, fr. necesse. See
{Necessary}.]
1. The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or
   absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.

2. The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing
   need; indigence; want.

         Urge the necessity and state of times. --Shak.

         The extreme poverty and necessity his majesty was
         in.                                   --Clarendon.

3. That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite;
   something indispensable; -- often in the plural.

         These should be hours for necessities, Not for
         delights.                             --Shak.

         What was once to me Mere matter of the fancy, now
         has grown The vast necessity of heart and life.
                                               --Tennyson.

4. That which makes an act or an event unavoidable;
   irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical
   or moral; fate; fatality.

         So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's
         plea, excused his devilish deeds.     --Milton.

5. (Metaph.) The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the
   subjection of all phenomena, whether material or
   spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.

{Of necessity}, by necessary consequence; by compulsion, or
   irresistible power; perforce.

Syn: See {Need}.

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