4syllables
necessity
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Definitions ofnecessity
1noun
- The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
Example: "I bought a new table out of necessity. My old one was ruined."
- The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack
- Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
Example: "A tent is a necessity if you plan on camping."
- Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power
- The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
- Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
Example: "doctrine of necessity"
- (in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).
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