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Necessity

Necessity Meaning & Definition
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

\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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