Associations to the word «Necessity»
Noun
- Must
- Luxury
- Contingency
- Propriety
- Impossibility
- Convenience
- Compulsion
- Recourse
- Impress
- Urgency
- Exertion
- Continuance
- Usefulness
- Justification
- Obedience
- Inconvenience
- Subsistence
- Prudence
- Coercion
- Necessary
- Concealment
- Scarcity
- Idleness
- Inclination
- Plea
- Pretence
- Virtue
- Modality
- Secrecy
- Urge
- Kant
- Tranquillity
- Dictate
- Precept
- Negation
- Salvation
- Repentance
- Arising
- Emancipation
- Extravagance
- Obligation
- Baptism
- Naming
- Absolute
- Invention
- Supposition
Adjective
Verb
Wiktionary
NECESSITY, noun. The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
NECESSITY, noun. The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
NECESSITY, noun. That which is necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
NECESSITY, noun. That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.
NECESSITY, noun. The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
NECESSITY, noun. (legal) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
NECESSITY, noun. (legal) (in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).
Dictionary definition
NECESSITY, noun. The condition of being essential or indispensable.
NECESSITY, 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".
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