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necessitation

English

Etymology

necessit +? -ation

Noun

necessitation (countable and uncountable, plural necessitations)

  1. (chiefly philosophy) Necessity, understood as a logical or other philosophical principle, or as a law or force of nature.
    • 1894, J. G. Schurman, "The Consciousness of Moral Obligation," The Philosophical Review, vol. 3, no. 6, p. 641:
      Moral obligation is not necessitation. The moral law commands but does not coerce us.
    • 1896, J. Clark Murray, "The Idealism of Spinoza," The Philosophical Review, vol. 5, no. 5, p. 485:
      The voluntary actions of men are now seen to claim an equal freedom from the necessitation of natural causes.
    • 1957, J. W. N. Watkins, "Between Analytic and Empirical," Philosophy, vol. 32, no. 121, p. 114:
      Determinism is an example: it alleges that all the seeming irregularities and spontaneities in the world are haunted by an omnipresent system of strict necessitation.
    • 2001, Eric Marcus, "Mental Causation: Unnaturalized but Not Unnatural," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 63, no. 1, p. 79:
      In virtue of their contents, psychological states stand in logical relations like incompatibility, material implication, and conceptual necessitation.

Usage notes

  • Necessitude, necessitousness, necessitation, necessariness are all nouns closely related to necessity, but they tend to have narrower ranges of usage than necessity. The principal sense of necessitude and necessitousness is impoverishment, but the plural form of the former (necessitudes) denotes a set of circumstances which is inevitable or unavoidable. Necessitation is used to suggest necessity as a philosophical or cosmic principle. Necessariness tends to be used to stress a direct connection to the adjective necessary.

Related terms

  • necessitate

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necessary

English

Etymology

From Middle English necessarye, from Old French necessaire, from Latin necess?rius (unavoidable, inevitable, required), variant of necesse (unavoidable, inevitable), probably from ne or non cessum, from the perfect passive participle of c?d? (yield; avoid, withdraw); see cede.

Older use as a noun in reference to an outhouse or lavatory under the influence of English and Latin necess?rium, a medieval term for the place for monks' "unavoidable" business, usually located behind or attached to monastic dormitories.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /?n?s??s??i/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?s?s??/
  • (nonstandard) IPA(key): /?n?s??i/

Adjective

necessary (comparative necessarier or more necessary, superlative necessariest or most necessary)

  1. Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:requisite
    Antonym: unnecessary
    • c. 1605, William Shakespeare & al., The Life of Tymon of Athens, Act III, Scene vi, ll. 1258-60:
      1.Sen. ...The faults Bloody:
      'Tis necessary he should dye:
      Nothing imboldens sinne so much, as Mercy.
  2. Unavoidable, inevitable.
    Synonyms: inevitable, natural
    Antonyms: evitable, incidental, impossible
    • 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar, Act II, Scene ii, ll. 1020-25:
      Cæs. Cowards dye many times before their deaths,
      The valiant neuer taste of death but once:
      Of all the Wonders that I yet haue heard,
      It seemes to me most strange that men should feare,
      Seeing that death, a necessary end
      Will come, when it will come.
  3. (obsolete) Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
    • 1871, Richard Holt Hutton, Essays, Vol. I, p. 53:
      But that a necessary being should give birth to a being with any amount, however limited, of moral freedom, is infinitely less conceivable than that parents of the insect or fish type should give birth to a perfect mammal.

Derived terms

  • necessarily
  • necessary condition

Related terms

Translations

Noun

necessary (plural necessaries)

  1. (Britain, archaic euphemistic, usually with the definite article) A place to do the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory.

Synonyms

  • See Thesaurus:bathroom

Related terms

  • necessary house; necessary place, necessary stool, necessary vault (obsolete)

References

  • necessary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • necessary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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