necessity

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noun

Plural noun:

necessities

1.
(countable, uncountable)The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
I bought a new table out of necessity. My old one was ruined.
2.
(countable, uncountable)The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
3.
(countable, uncountable)Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
A tent is a necessity if you plan on camping.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
4.
(countable, uncountable)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.
5.
(countable, uncountable)The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
6.
(countable, uncountable)(law) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
doctrine of necessity
7.
(countable, in plural, uncountable)(law, in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).

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Đồng nghĩa

necessariness inevitability needfulness certainty requirementrequisite requirement

Trái nghĩa

impossibility contingency luxurystate of being necessary impossibility, contingencysomething indispensable luxury

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From Middle English necessite, from Old French necessite, from Latin necessitās (unavoidableness, compulsion, exigency, necessity), from necesse (unavoidable, inevitable); see necessary. Necessitas.