necessity
/nɪˈsɛsəti/ noun B2- The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite. · I bought a new table out of necessity. My old one was ruined.· The report I wrote was of necessity rushed and full of errors.
- The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
- Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable. · A tent is a necessity if you plan on camping.
- Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power. · After eating a full meal, the human body's necessity for food will compel the person to eat again in the future.
- The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
- Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act. · doctrine of necessity
- Indispensable requirements (of life).
Plural necessities
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"In that case, my dear sir, I shall be under the painful necessity of advising your arrest."
Nothing interrupted the progress of the work except the necessity that each was under of returning to his cell in anticipation of the turnkey’s visits.
When they had taken as many beasts as their necessities required, the Lion undertook to distribute the prey, and for this purpose divided it into three shares.
Necessity knows no law.
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