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Synonyms for necessity
nəˈsɛs ɪ tine·ces·si·ty
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Wiktionary
necessitynoun
Antonyms:
contingency, possibilitynecessitynoun
I bought a new table out of necessity. My old one was ruined.
Antonyms:
contingency, luxury, possibilitynecessitynoun
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possibility, contingency, luxurynecessitynoun
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contingency, possibility, luxurynecessitynoun
Antonyms:
luxury, contingency, possibilitynecessitynoun
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
Princeton's WordNet
necessitynoun
the condition of being essential or indispensable
Synonyms:
essential, requirement, requisite, necessarynecessity, 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 Synonymes
necessitynoun
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compulsion, fatality, fate, destiny, irresistible forcenecessitynoun
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indispensableness, indispensability, inevitablenessnecessitynoun
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need, needfulness, urgency, exigency, pressing wantnecessitynoun
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requirement, requisite, essential, necessary, indispensable thing, SINE QUA NON
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
necessitynoun
Synonyms:
requisite, necessary, requirement, essential, exigency, urgency, indispensabilityAntonyms:
choice, option, contingency, doubtfulness, possibility
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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?
My formula for greatness in man is! amor fati: the fact that a man wishes nothing to be different, either in front of him or behind him, or for all eternity. Not only must the necessary be borne, and on no account concealed,—all idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity,—but it must also be loved....
When one door opens, another closes. this is the eternity's circle, mistakes belongs to us, but not all, the fate mapped out for us to follow, but does not define our choices, beings of necessity and randomness, we're rattling over the abyss in the vicinity of dying stars
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.
Hoping for the best on the policy front but positioning for the worst on the economic backdrop seems to be the flavor of the day, the Fed, now out of necessity alone, will need to adjust policy much more profoundly than they expected.
The department is evaluating the situation and will determine the necessity of issuing additional guidance.
Translations for necessity
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- necessitatCatalan, Valencian
- nouze, nutnostCzech
- Notwendigkeit, NezessitätGerman
- neceseco, necesoEsperanto
- necesidadSpanish
- välttämättömyystarvike, pakko, tarve, tarpeellisuus, välttämättömyys, tarvike, puutteenalaisuus, korvaamattomuus, tarvekalu, puutteellisuus, väistämättömyys, kohtalo, puuteFinnish
- nécessitéFrench
- feum, èiginnScottish Gaelic
- necesidadeGalician
- muszájHungarian
- կարիքArmenian
- besonioInterlingua
- necessitàItalian
- 必然性, 必需品, 必要性Japanese
- پێویست, پێویستیKurdish
- vajadzībaLatvian
- нуждаMacedonian
- koniecznośćPolish
- necessidadePortuguese
- necesitateRomanian
- необходи́мость, нужда́, необходимостьRussian
- nödvändighetSwedish
- అవసరంTelugu
- lüzum, gereklilikTurkish
- необхідністьUkrainian
- ضرورتUrdu
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