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

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Wiktionary4.0 / 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 Antonyms3.0 / 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 Antonyms4.0 / 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 WordNet5.0 / 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

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  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 Words3.0 / 1 vote

  1. necessitynoun

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

    Antonyms:
    choice, option, contingency, doubtfulness, possibility

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "necessity":

    need, necessary, imperative, requirement

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. necessity

    Synonyms:
    See Medical necessity

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How to use necessity in a sentence?

  1. Jim Rutenberg:

    Murdoch has a history of sacrificing loyal lieutenants, but he does it only in the most extreme circumstances, we know that he hates doing it. We know that he tends to try to fight for his loyalists, even for Ailes, certainly for O’Reilly. But when it’s a necessity to overcome a real threat to his business, he’ll do it.

  2. Carl Gustav Jung:

    The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

  3. H. G.Wells, The Time Machine:

    We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

  4. Gabriel García Márquez:

    Necessity has the face of a dog.

  5. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin:

    The point I made specially is the necessity of providing security in the run-up to the future elections. Security first. Without security we can't deliver on anything further.


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