Synonyms for necessity
nəˈsɛs ɪ tine·ces·si·ty

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1. necessitynoun

   Antonyms:
   contingency, possibility

2. necessitynoun

   I bought a new table out of necessity. My old one was ruined.

   Antonyms:
   contingency, luxury, possibility

3. necessitynoun

   Antonyms:
   possibility, contingency, luxury

4. necessitynoun

   Antonyms:
   contingency, possibility, luxury

5. necessitynoun

   Antonyms:
   luxury, contingency, possibility

6. necessitynoun

   Antonyms:
   contingency, possibility, luxury

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. necessity

   Necessity is the quality of being necessary, or the quality of that which can not but be, become, or be true, or be accepted as true. Need and want always imply a lack; necessity may be used in this sense, but in the higher philosophical sense necessity simply denotes the exclusion of any alternative either in thought or fact; righteousness is a necessity (not a need) of the divine nature. Need suggests the possibility of supplying the deficiency which want expresses; to speak of a person's want of decision merely points out a weakness in his character; to say that he has need of decision implies that he can exercise or attain it. As applied to a deficiency, necessity is more imperative than need; a weary person is in need of rest; when rest becomes a necessity he has no choice but to stop work. An essential is something, as a quality, or element, that belongs to the essence of something else so as to be inseparable from it in its normal condition, or in any complete idea or statement of it. Compare NECESSARY; PREDESTINATION.

   Synonyms:
   compulsion, destiny, emergency, essential, exigency, extremity, fatality, fate, indispensability, indispensableness, need, requirement, requisite, sine qua non, unavoidableness, urgency, want

   Antonyms:
   choice, contingency, doubt, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, fortuity, freedom, option, possibility, uncertainty

   Preposition:
   The necessity of surrender; a necessity for action; this is a necessity to me.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. necessity

   Synonyms:
   indispensableness, inevitableness, need, indigence, requirement, want, fate, destiny

   Antonyms:
   dispensableness, uncertainty, superfluity, uselessness, competence, affluence, casualty, contingency, freedom, choice

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. necessitynoun

   the condition of being essential or indispensable

   Synonyms:
   essential, requirement, requisite, necessary

2. necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessarynoun

   anything indispensable

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

   Synonyms:
   essential, demand, requirement, requisite, necessary, prerequisite

Matched Categories

1. • Need

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1. necessitynoun

   Synonyms:
   compulsion, fatality, fate, destiny, irresistible force

2. necessitynoun

   Synonyms:
   indispensableness, indispensability, inevitableness

3. necessitynoun

   Synonyms:
   need, needfulness, urgency, exigency, pressing want

4. necessitynoun

   Synonyms:
   requirement, requisite, essential, necessary, indispensable thing, SINE QUA NON

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. necessitynoun

   Synonyms:
   requisite, necessary, requirement, essential, exigency, urgency, indispensability

   Antonyms:
   choice, option, contingency, doubtfulness, possibility

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1. List of paraphrases for "necessity":

   need, necessary, imperative, requirement

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. necessity

   Synonyms:
   See Medical necessity
   

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1. Lindsey Graham:

   Personally I think President Donald Trump will come out of this stronger and the good news is that everybody in politics in America needs to prove to the American public we're not all completely crazy. So there may be a spirit of compromise coming post-impeachment, born of political necessity, if anything else.

2. Ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir:

   I would describe it as a war of necessity, we had no choice. We tried every possible way to avoid it.

3. Marcus Tullus Cicero:

   Wisemen are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.

4. Nicholas Robinson:

   It's not a necessity, but it's a goal.

5. Central Military Commission:

   A modern country by necessity is one that is one with rule of law, and a modern military is by necessity one that has rule of law, the more modern the military is, the more informatized it is, the more it needs to follow the rule of law.