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Definition of Necessity
1. Noun. The condition of being essential or indispensable.
Specialized synonyms: Requisiteness, Urgency
Attributes: Necessary, Unnecessary, Unneeded
Derivative terms: Necessary, Necessitate
2. Noun. Anything indispensable. "A place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
Generic synonyms: Thing
Specialized synonyms: Desideratum, Must, Need, Want
Derivative terms: Essential, Necessary, Necessitate, Necessitous, Require, Requisite
Antonyms: Inessential
Definition of Necessity
1. n. The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
Definition of Necessity
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Medical Definition of Necessity
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Origin: OE. Necessite, F. Necessite, 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)
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