DEFINITIONS

necessity

[ nuh-ses-i-tee ]
/ nəˈsɛs ɪ ti /
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noun, plural ne·ces·si·ties.

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Words related to necessity

requirement, precondition, prerequisite, fundamental, obligation, essential, urgency, claim, privation, essence, inexorableness, demand, want, call, imperative, compulsion, cause, exaction, duress, exigency

Words nearby necessity

necessitarian, necessitarianism, necessitate, necessitous, necessitude, necessity, necessity is the mother of invention, nechako, neches, necho, neck

Idioms for necessity

    of necessity, as an inevitable result; unavoidably; necessarily: Our trip to China must of necessity be postponed for a while.

Origin of necessity

1325–75; Middle English necessite < Latin necessitās, equivalent to necess(e) needful + -itās -ity

OTHER WORDS FROM necessity

non·ne·ces·si·ty, noun, plural non·ne·ces·si·ties.su·per·ne·ces·si·ty, noun, plural su·per·ne·ces·si·ties.

synonym study for necessity

3. See need.
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British Dictionary definitions for necessities

necessity
/ (nɪˈsɛsɪtɪ) /

noun plural -ties

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Idioms and Phrases with necessities

necessity

In addition to the idiom beginning with necessity

  • necessity is the mother of invention

also see:

  • make a virtue of necessity
  • of necessity
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