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n. The condition or quality of being necessary.

n. Something necessary: The necessities of life include food, clothing, and shelter.

n. Something dictated by invariable physical laws.

n. The force exerted by circumstance.

n. The state or fact of being in need.

n. Pressing or urgent need, especially that arising from poverty.

idiom. of necessity As an inevitable consequence; necessarily.

n. The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.

n. The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.

n. That which is necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.

n. That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.

n. The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.

n. Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.

n. Indispensable requirements (of life).

n. The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.

n. The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.

n. That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural.

n. That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.

n. The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.

n. The condition or quality of being necessary or needful; the mode of being or of truth of that which is necessary; the impossibility of the contrary; the absolute character of a determination or limitation which is not merely without exception, but which would be so in any possible state of things; absolute constraint.

n. As applied to the human will, the opposite of liberty.

n. In philosophy, the inevitable determination of the human will by a motive or other cause. This is only a special use of the word in the free-will dispute. In philosophy generally, by the necessity of a cognition is properly meant a cognized necessity, or universality in reference to possible states of things; although some writers use the word to denote a constraint upon the power of thought.

n. A condition requisite for the attainment of any purpose; also, a necessary of life, without which life, or at least the life appropriate to one's station, would be impossible.

n. Want of the means of living; lack of the means to live as becomes one's station or is one's habit.

n. Extreme need, in general.

n. Business; something needful to be done.

n. Bad illicit spirit.

n. Synonyms Necessity, Need. Necessity is more urgent than need: a merchant may have need of more money in order to the most successful managing of his business; he may have a necessity for more cash in hand to avoid going into bankruptcy.

n. the condition of being essential or indispensable

n. anything indispensable

"Now in the works of nature the good end and the final cause is still more dominant than in works of art such as these, nor is necessity a factor with the same significance in them all; though almost all writers, while they try to refer their origin to this cause, do so without distinguishing the various senses in which the term necessity is used."

contingency    possibility    luxury   

necessary    n    works of necessity    moral necessity    natural necessity    doctrine of necessity    logical necessity    money of necessity    internal necessity    physical necessity   

need    inevitableness    indispensableness    indigence    want    necessary    requisite    fate    fatality    necessitarianism   

need    importance    advantage    consequence    principle    difficulty    want    habit    condition    reality