Associations to the word «Necessity»

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".

Wise words

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe