Necessity

[nɪ'sesɪtɪ] or [nə'sɛsəti]

Definition

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) the condition of being essential or indispensable.

Typed by Floyd--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.

(n.) The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.

(n.) That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural.

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

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

Typist: Nelly

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Compulsion, fatality, fate, destiny, irresistible force.[2]. Indispensableness, indispensability, inevitableness.[3]. Need, needfulness, urgency, exigency, pressing want.[4]. Requirement, requisite, essential, necessary, indispensable thing, SINE QUA NON.

Editor: Noreen

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Indispensableness, inevitableness, need, indigence, requirement, want, fate,destiny

ANT:dispensableness, uncertainty, superfluity, uselessness, competence, affluence,casualty, contingency, freedom, choice

Editor: Thea

Definition

n. state or quality of being necessary: that which is necessary or unavoidable: compulsion: great need: poverty.—ns. Necessitā′rian; Necessitā′rianism necessarianism.—v.t. Necess′itāte to make necessary: to render unavoidable: to compel.—n. Necessitā′tion.—adjs. Necess′itied (Shak.) in a state of want; Necess′itous in necessity: very poor: destitute.—adv. Necess′itously.—n. Necess′itousness.—Natural necessity the condition of being necessary according to the laws of nature; Logical or Mathematical according to those of human intelligence; Moral according to those of moral law; Works of necessity work so necessary as to be allowable on the Sabbath.

Editor: Vlad

Examples

Typist: Vance

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