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 Antonyms(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

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 Antonyms(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. necessity

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

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

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

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

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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 Words(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. necessitynoun

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

   Antonyms:
   choice, option, contingency, doubtfulness, possibility

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these paraphrases:

1. List of paraphrases for "necessity":

   need, necessary, imperative, requirement

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. necessity

   Synonyms:
   See Medical necessity
   

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1. Jack Lew:

   Puerto Rico is at a moment of necessity and crisis.

2. Pablo Picasso:

   Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

3. Scott Lout:

   If we’re doing the same work 20 years on, it’s no longer acceptable for anyone, even if the necessity requires it.

4. G. I. Gurdjieff:

   Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

5. James Fenimore Cooper:

   It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.