necessity.
The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
Meaning & usage
The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
I bought a new table out of necessity. My old one was ruined.
The report I wrote was of necessity rushed and full of errors.
The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
A tent is a necessity if you plan on camping.
Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
After eating a full meal, the human body's necessity for food will compel the person to eat again in the future.
The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
doctrine of necessity
Indispensable requirements (of life).
Where this word comes from
From Middle English necessite, from Old French necessite, from Latin necessitās (“unavoidableness, compulsion, exigency, necessity”), from necesse (“unavoidable, inevitable”); see necessary. Doublet of Necessitas.
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