Necessity

Definition:

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

Compare necessity with other words:

motivation vs. necessity

necessity vs. provision

necessity vs. unavoidability

imperative vs. necessity

necessity vs. needs

desire vs. necessity

necessity vs. preference

necessity vs. suggestion

necessity vs. settle

necessity vs. required

necessity vs. prerequisite

choice vs. necessity

essential vs. necessity

necessity vs. needsly

necessity vs. nonnecessity

impediment vs. necessity

distress vs. necessity

emergency vs. necessity

necessity vs. urgency

necessity vs. requisition

necessity vs. potentiality

necessity vs. needly

inevitability vs. necessity