necessity  

EN[nɪˈsɛsəti]
US

Definition of necessity in English Dictionary

• NomPLnecessitiesSUF-ity+-
  1. The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
     1. Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […]  But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul.
  2. The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
  3. That which is necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
  4. That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.
  5. The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
  6. (law) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
     1. doctrine of necessity ‎
  7. (law, in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).
• Plus d'exemples
  1. Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
     • 1875, W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone, Speeches of Pope Pius IX. page 4 - It can hardly be policy, it must be a necessity of his nature, which prompts his incessant harangues.
     • to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case

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Other Vocabulary

1. fr nécessita
2. fr nécessité
3. fr nécessite
4. en necessary
5. fr nécessitée