NECESSITY
\nəsˈɛsɪti], \nəsˈɛsɪti], \n_ə_s_ˈɛ_s_ɪ_t_i]\
Definitions of NECESSITY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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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.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Things requisite for a purpose.
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That which must be, and can not be otherwise; compulsion: inevitableness; extreme indigence.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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That which cannot be otherwise; that which must be; extreme indigence; pinching poverty; irresistible power.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Latin] Quality of being necessary or absolutely requisite; indispensableness;- pressing need; indigence; want;- that which is necessary; a requisite- chiefly in the plural;- irresistible force; overruling power; fate; fatality;- denial of freedom to voluntary action.
