Definition of "necessity"
- noun
The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
That which is necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.
The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
Indispensable requirements (of life).
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