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. Karl Marx:

   Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

2. Petro Poroshenko:

   The participants agreed on the necessity of implementing all points of the Minsk agreement, including the question of the ceasefire ... the withdrawal of heavy weapons and also the immediate release of all hostages.

3. President Obama:

   Today, high-speed broadband is not a luxury. It's a necessity, this is about helping local businesses grow and prosper and compete in the global economy.

4. Warren Bennis:

   The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul that moment created the resilience that leaders need.

5. Mark Twain:

   Necessity is the mother of taking chances.