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What (who) is Necessity - definition
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Necessary (disambiguation); Political necessity defense; Necessity (disambiguation); Nessecary; Necessity; Necessities
necessity
(necessities)
1.
The necessity of something is the fact that it must happen or exist.
There is agreement on the necessity of reforms...
Most women, like men, work from economic necessity...
Some people have to lead stressful lifestyles out of necessity.
N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp
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If you say that something is of necessity the case, you mean that it is the case because nothing else is possible or practical in the circumstances.
Negotiations between the enemies are of necessity indirect.
PHRASE: usu PHR before v, PHR n/adj/adv
2.
A necessity is something that you must have in order to live properly or do something.
Water is a basic necessity of life.
...food, fuel and other daily necessities.
= essential
? luxury
N-COUNT
3.
A situation or action that is a necessity is necessary and cannot be avoided.
The President pleaded that strong rule from the centre was a regrettable, but temporary necessity.
N-COUNT: usu sing
necessity
n.
1.
Unavoidableness, inevitableness.
2.
Compulsion, fatality, fate, destiny, irresistible force, overruling power.
3.
Indispensableness, indispensability, need.
4.
Need, needfulness, urgency, exigency, pressing want.
5.
Requirement, requisite, essential, necessary, indispensable thing, sine qua non.
6.
Indigence, poverty, need, want.
necessity
n.
1) to obviate a necessity
2) an absolute, dire; military necessity
3) the bare; daily necessities
4) a necessity for
5) of necessity (you will of necessity remain silent)
6) (misc.) the necessities of life
Wikipedia
Necessary
Necessary or necessity may refer to:
- Need
- An action somebody may feel they must do
- An important task or essential thing to do at a particular time or by a particular moment
- Necessary and sufficient condition, in logic, something that is a required condition for something else to be the case
- Necessary proposition, in logic, a statement about facts that is either unassailably true (tautology) or obviously false (contradiction)
- Metaphysical necessity, in philosophy, a truth which is true in all possible worlds
- Necessity in modal logic
- Necessity good in economics
- Law
- Doctrine of necessity, a concept in constitutional law
- Military necessity, a concept in international law
- Necessity (criminal law), a defence in criminal law
- Necessity (tort), a concept in the law of tort
- A necessity in contract law
- Other
- Necessity., a poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon being part of Three Extracts from the Diary of a Week, 1837.
- "Necessary" (song), by Every Little Thing, 1998
- A bathroom or toilet, in some languages (in English this is an archaic usage)
- An economic need enunciated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 Second Bill of Rights
- Necessity (novel), of 2016 by Jo Walton
- Necessary Records, UK record label
Examples of use of Necessity
1. They are an incontrovertible security necessity, period.
2. "The [disengagement] plan is a national necessity.
3. "We insist on the necessity of implementing the law and the necessity of the handing over of all of them according to law," he added.
4. Then they languish, used more out of guilt than necessity.
5. We understand it‘s become part of military necessity.