Definition of Necessity

1. Noun. The condition of being essential or indispensable.

Generic synonyms: Demand, Need
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"
Exact synonyms: Essential, Necessary, Requirement, Requisite
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

1. 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) 5. The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism. Of necessity, by necessary consequence; by compulsion, or irresistible power; perforce. Synonym: See Need. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Necessity

necessary
necessary cause
necessitarian
necessitarians
necessitate
necessitated
necessitates
necessitating
necessitation
necessitations
necessities
necessitous
necessitously
necessitousness
necessity (current term)
necessity (current term)
neck
neck
neck-deep
neck-shaft angle
Neckar
neckar nut
Neckar River
neckatee
neckatees
neckband
neckbands
neckbeef
neckbeefs
neckcloth

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