Definitions of necessity

1. Things requisite for a purpose.

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

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

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. The state or quality of being absolutely needed or indispensable; that which is unavoidable or which cannot be done without; compulsion; extreme poverty.

7. That which is necessary or unavoidable: compulsion: need: poverty.

8. That which must be; compulsion; need; poverty.

9. The quality of being necessary; something that is necessary; fate; fatality.

10. That which must be, and can not be otherwise; compulsion: inevitableness; extreme indigence.

11. That which cannot be otherwise; that which must be; extreme indigence; pinching poverty; irresistible power.