necessity - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'necessity' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Necessity

[ n.]

- The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
- The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
- That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural.
- That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.
- The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.

Meaning of 'necessity' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . necessity

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- anything indispensable

Example in sentence:

a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained;
allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions;
food and shelter are necessities of life;
the essentials of the good life

Nearby Words:

necessarian necessarianism necessaries necessarily necessariness necessary necessitarian necessitarianism necessitate necessitated

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Operational necessity
Operational necessity is a mission associated with war or peacetime operations in which the consequences of an action justify the risk of loss of aircraft and crew.
Business Necessity
“Business necessity” is a defense created by the courts.It requires showing that there is an overriding business purpose for the discriminatory practice ...

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