| Definitions of 'Necessity' |
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1. (noun) necessity
the condition of being essential or indispensable
2. (noun) necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessary
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"
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| Definitions of 'Necessity' |
Webster 1913 Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Necessity
the quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness
2. (noun) Necessity
the condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want
3. (noun) Necessity
that which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural
4. (noun) Necessity
that which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality
5. (noun) Necessity
the negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism
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