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Synonyms for necessity
nəˈsɛs ɪ ti
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Princeton's WordNet
necessity(noun)
the condition of being essential or indispensable
Synonyms:
essential, requirement, requisite, necessarynecessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessary(noun)
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
Wiktionary
necessity(noun)
Antonyms:
possibility, contingencynecessity(noun)
I bought a new table out of necessity. My old one was ruined.
Antonyms:
contingency, luxury, possibilitynecessity(noun)
Antonyms:
possibility, contingency, luxurynecessity(noun)
Antonyms:
contingency, luxury, possibilitynecessity(noun)
Antonyms:
luxury, contingency, possibilitynecessity(noun)
Antonyms:
contingency, possibility, luxury
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, wantAntonyms:
choice, contingency, doubt, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, fortuity, freedom, option, possibility, uncertaintyPreposition:
The necessity of surrender; a necessity for action; this is a necessity to me.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
necessity
Synonyms:
indispensableness, inevitableness, need, indigence, requirement, want, fate, destinyAntonyms:
dispensableness, uncertainty, superfluity, uselessness, competence, affluence, casualty, contingency, freedom, choice
Dictionary of English Synonymes
necessity(n.)
Synonyms:
compulsion, fatality, fate, destiny, irresistible forcenecessity(n.)
Synonyms:
indispensableness, indispensability, inevitablenessnecessity(n.)
Synonyms:
need, needfulness, urgency, exigency, pressing wantnecessity(n.)
Synonyms:
requirement, requisite, essential, necessary, indispensable thing, SINE QUA NON
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
necessity(n)
Synonyms:
requisite, necessary, requirement, essential, exigency, urgency, indispensabilityAntonyms:
choice, option, contingency, doubtfulness, possibility
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "necessity":
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
necessity
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See Medical necessity
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#183 | need | |
#254 | want | |
#1105 | necessary | |
#1829 | demand | |
#1909 | emergency | |
#2131 | essential | |
#3277 | requirement | |
#7888 | fate | |
#8620 | prerequisite | |
#9247 | destiny | |
#9308 | necessity | |
#14966 | imperative | |
#16157 | urgency | |
#16399 | requisite | |
#29276 | fatality | |
#30283 | extremity | |
#37799 | compulsion | |
#115959 | exigency | |
#210874 | indigence | |
#265185 | indispensability |
How to use necessity in a sentence?
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. (To Canadian Parliament)
Some of that's strategic, some of it's out of necessity, we made a conscious effort on Sunday nights with SportsCenter to continue the experience... If we can hold that viewer's attention for another hour, that's what a programmer aspires to do.
The Japanese are more anti-militarist than pacifist, they're prepared to accept the necessity of self-defense.
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.
Use law and physic only for necessity. They that use them otherwise abuse themselves into weak bodies and light purses. They are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations.
Translations for necessity
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- necessitatCatalan, Valencian
- nutnost, nouzeCzech
- Nezessität, NotwendigkeitGerman
- neceso, necesecoEsperanto
- necesidadSpanish
- pakko, korvaamattomuus, puute, välttämättömyystarvike, kohtalo, puutteenalaisuus, välttämättömyys, tarpeellisuus, tarve, tarvike, puutteellisuus, väistämättömyys, tarvekaluFinnish
- nécessitéFrench
- èiginn, feumScottish Gaelic
- necesidadeGalician
- muszájHungarian
- կարիքArmenian
- besonioInterlingua
- necessitàItalian
- 必然性, 必需品, 必要性Japanese
- پێویستی, پێویستKurdish
- vajadzībaLatvian
- нуждаMacedonian
- koniecznośćPolish
- necessidadePortuguese
- necesitateRomanian
- необходи́мость, нужда́, необходимостьRussian
- nödvändighetSwedish
- అవసరంTelugu
- lüzum, gereklilikTurkish
- необхідністьUkrainian
- ضرورتUrdu
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