Definitions of necessity
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Things requisite for a purpose.
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The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
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The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
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That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.
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The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
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The state or quality of being absolutely needed or indispensable; that which is unavoidable or which cannot be done without; compulsion; extreme poverty.
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That which is necessary or unavoidable: compulsion: need: poverty.
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That which must be; compulsion; need; poverty.
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The quality of being necessary; something that is necessary; fate; fatality.
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That which must be, and can not be otherwise; compulsion: inevitableness; extreme indigence.
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That which cannot be otherwise; that which must be; extreme indigence; pinching poverty; irresistible power.