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

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:4.0 / 4 votes

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.

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

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

   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

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

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

Matched Categories

1. • Need

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms: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

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

1. necessitynoun

   Antonyms:
   choice, option, contingency, doubtfulness, possibility

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

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

1. necessity

   Synonyms:
   See Medical necessity
   

How to use necessity in a sentence?

1. Shifty Schiff:

   What made this a necessity for me and so many of my colleagues is that if the President believes that he can abuse his office, the power of that office, he can fail to defend our national security and there is no accountability, even if the accountability is only in the White House, White House's too dangerous a prospect to persist.

2. Marcus Aurelius:

   Failure to observe what is in the mind of another has seldom made a man unhappy; but those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy.

3. Christopher Taylor:

   Access to these items is a matter of personal dignity, a human necessity and a health care right.

4. Valentin Bissat:

   We note that defensive equity sectors earnings have generally weakened while cyclical sectors keep their positive momentum, overall for the region, the equity risk premium has decreased, which in turn increases companies’ buybacks, a trend which is likely to continue in the short term as reduced uncertainties and a cyclical recovery decrease the necessity to hold liquidity in cash.

5. Brian Karlak:

   If knowledge is power, informatics is politics. Rearranging our systems of knowledge will by necessity rearrange our systems of politics.

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