What's the difference between necessity and need?

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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The indication of the DNA probe method would be considered in the four cases as follows, 1. necessity of the special equipment to isolate the pathogen, 2. necessity of the long period to isolate the pathogen, 3. existence of the cross reaction among the pathogen and relative organisms in the immunological procedure, 4. existence of the difficulty to identify the species of the pathogen by the ordinary procedure.
  • (2) Among 159 patients studied, the severity most frequent was Yahr stage 3 (63%) at first examination, indicating the necessity of earlier diagnosis.
  • (3) When a product is selected for a patient, consideration should be given to necessity, efficacy, adverse effects, and cost-effectiveness.
  • (4) Discussion deals with the plurality, specificity, variability, perceived necessity, sufficiency, international utility and career significance of British postgraduate qualifications.
  • (5) As a result of recent environmental changes in the health care industry, marketing has become a vital necessity for the survival of most hospitals.
  • (6) There is a necessity for early definitive decision-making in the borderline orthognathic surgery patient and the role of orthodontic camouflage is pointed out.
  • (7) For Kohut, interpretation depends on the prior establishment of a stable, sustaining transference; human connexion is a lifelong necessity and full understanding an achievable aim.
  • (8) Management and treatment issues are surveyed, such as the necessity to recognize that in some adolescents violence erupts not from narcissitic rage but from strong wishes for affectionate contact.
  • (9) A prospective study of the necessity of sedation, or analgesia, or both in total colonoscopy was performed.
  • (10) The authors report on the casuistry of aorto-coronary by-pass operations they performed between April 1971 and December 1974, discussing the criteria which indicate the necessity of operating, the principles of the operative techniques, and the results obtained.
  • (11) This case, despite the fatal outcome, emphasises the necessity for a comprehensive approach to the diagnosis of atypical pneumonia, including culture for Legionella, especially in immunocompromised patients.
  • (12) The sonographic method, with a 97.7% specificity and a negative predictive value of 89.5%, proved to be specific enough to eliminate the necessity of routine catheterization for measuring residual bladder volumes of greater than or equal to 150 cm3, thus decreasing the incidence of some major postoperative complications that can occur due to unnecessary catheterization.
  • (13) The development of gallstones following this procedure, however, has become more problematic in that further opeation becomes a real necessity.
  • (14) The necessity of using immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of sinonasal tumours of fibromatous nature is emphasized.
  • (15) The experience with 1896 restorative operations on injured nerve trunks shows a necessity to consider the problems of diagnosis, prognosis and choice of the treatment, and especially the results of the nerve suture, not in all patients with nerve injury but only in separate groups being comparable with respect to the kind and severity of the trauma.
  • (16) Clinico-immunological studies on the use of drugs containing synthetic and biological polymers revealed their high immunomodulating activity and necessity of differentiated use of these drugs with relation to the pathogenetic mechanisms of development of bronchopulmonary diseases as well as mechanisms of their immunological action determined by the molecular mass of polymers as constituents of blood substitutes.
  • (17) We consider that the rarity of stricture rules out the necessity of any change in management, whether or not erosive oesophagitis is observed at endoscopy.
  • (18) The discrepancy between the judgement of the insurance company based upon the medical records and the patients complaints also 4-7 years after injury as well as the diversification of therapeutical procedures used in the long term patients career are indicating a necessity of prospective study on cervical spine injury.
  • (19) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
  • (20) In light of the AIDS epidemic and the necessity for safe-sex practices, the topic of caution and prevention is an emerging and critical discourse for the sexual encounter.

Need


Definition:

  • (n.) A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
  • (n.) Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
  • (n.) That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.
  • (n.) Situation of need; peril; danger.
  • (n.) To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
  • (v. i.) To be wanted; to be necessary.
  • (adv.) Of necessity. See Needs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
  • (2) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
  • (3) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
  • (4) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (5) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
  • (6) That means deciding what job they’d like to have and outlining the steps they’ll need to take to achieve it.
  • (7) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
  • (8) More research and a national policy to provide optimal nutrition for all pregnant women, including the adolescent, are needed.
  • (9) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
  • (10) It is suggested that the results indicate the need for full haematological screening of all patients with recurrent aphthae.
  • (11) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
  • (12) Elderly women need to follow the same strategies as postmenopausal women with more emphasis on prevention of falls.
  • (13) The problem of treatment oneside malocclusions of adult patients needs to concern of anchorange.
  • (14) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
  • (15) Most patients of the bopindolol-group needed 1 mg once daily as compared to those on the nifedipine who required 20 mg b.i.d.
  • (16) But that's just it - they need to be viable in the long term.
  • (17) However, further improvement of culture systems is needed for active replication of HBV in vitro.
  • (18) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
  • (19) These deficiencies in the data compromise HIV surveillance based on diagnostic testing, and supplementary bias-free data are needed.
  • (20) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.