Associations to the word «Necessity»
Noun
- Vigour
- Perceiving
- Intellect
- Disregard
- Ignorant
- Reasoning
- Observance
- Neglect
- Disposition
- Oppression
- Morality
- Ingenuity
- Entreaty
- Hegel
- Allowance
- Principle
- Possibility
- Suffering
- Tyranny
- Argument
- Taxation
- Perseverance
- Starving
- Liberty
- Supposing
- Urging
- Nature
- Repose
- Keeping
- Paramount
- Excuse
- Proposition
- Conception
- Instinct
- Adherence
- Dependence
- Clothing
- Affliction
- Legality
- Censure
- Unity
- Atonement
- Cowardice
- Misfortune
- Wickedness
- Pretension
- Contradiction
- Individuality
- Habit
- Particular
- Semantics
- Plurality
- Logic
- Peril
- Compromise
- Expenditure
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".
Wise words
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