- (n.) The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
- (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 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 is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural.
- (n.) The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
- (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 makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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| MLA | Webster's. "necessity" 27 May 2011. Web. 24 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/necessity/definitions/2036120> |