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 Definitions of Necessity  [əˈsɛs ɪ ti]  

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Definition of 'Necessity' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) necessity
something necessary or indispensable:
food, shelter, and other necessities of life.

2.  necessity
the fact of being necessary or indispensable; indispensability:
the necessity of adequate housing.

3.  necessity
an imperative requirement or need for something:
a necessity for a quick decision.

4.  necessity
the state or fact of being necessary or inevitable:
to face the necessity of testifying in court.

5.  necessity
an unavoidable need or compulsion to do something:
not by choice but by necessity.

6.  necessity
a state of being in financial need; poverty:
a family in dire necessity.

7.  necessity
Philos. the quality of following inevitably from logical, physical, or moral laws.


Definition of 'Necessity' Princeton's WordNet 

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"


Definition of 'Necessity' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) necessity
the fact of being necessary or needed
the necessity of having good schools; the necessity for Congress to act immediately; a deal made out of necessity

2.  necessity
sth you need or must have
food, water, and other basic necessities


Definition of 'Necessity' Webster Dictionary 

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


Translation of 'Necessity' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: something needed or essential
Food is one of the necessities of life.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: noodsaaklikheid Arabic flag Arabic: ضَرورَه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: необходимост
Brazilian flag Brazilian: necessidade Czech flag Czech: nezbytnost, nutnost German flag German: die Notwendigkeit
Danish flag Danish: nødvendighed Greek flag Greek: ανάγκη, αναγκαιότητα Spanish flag Spanish: necesidad
Estonian flag Estonian: paratamatus Farsi flag Farsi: اضطرار Finnish flag Finnish: edellytys
French flag French: chose nécessaire Hebrew flag Hebrew: צוֹרֶך Hindi flag Hindi: आवश्यकता, अनिवार्यता
Croatian flag Croatian: potreba, neophodnost Hungarian flag Hungarian: szükség(let) Indonesian flag Indonesian: kebutuhan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: nauðsyn Italian flag Italian: necessità, cosa necessari Japanese flag Japanese: 必要
Korean flag Korean: 불가결한 것, 필수품 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: būtinybė, būtinas daiktas Latvian flag Latvian: nepieciešamība
Malay flag Malay: keperluan Dutch flag Dutch: behoefte Norwegian flag Norwegian: nødvendighet, behov, tran
Polish flag Polish: konieczność Persian flag Persian: از ضروريا ت مهم Pashto flag Pashto: له مهمو توكو څخه
Portuguese flag Portuguese: necessidade Romanian flag Romanian: necesitate Russian flag Russian: необходимость
Slovak flag Slovak: nevyhnutnosť Slovenian flag Slovenian: potreba Serbian flag Serbian: potreba
Swedish flag Swedish: nödvändighet, livsvillkor Thai flag Thai: สิ่งจำเป็น Turkish flag Turkish: ihtiyaç, zorunluluk
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 必需品 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: необхідність; настійна по Urdu flag Urdu: ضرورت
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: sự cần thiết; phần tất yế Chinese flag Chinese: 必需品

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