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necessity
English
Etymology
From Middle English necessite, from Old French necessite, from Latin necessit?s (“unavoidableness, compulsion, exigency, necessity”), from necesse (“unavoidable, inevitable”); see necessary.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n??s?s?ti/
Noun
necessity (countable and uncountable, plural necessities)
- The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
- 1863, Richard Sibbes, The Successful Seeker, in The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes, D.D., Volume VI, James Nichol, page 125,
- For it is in vain for a man to think to seek God in his necessity and exigence, if he seek not God in his ordinances, and do not joy in them.
- 1863, Richard Sibbes, The Successful Seeker, in The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes, D.D., Volume VI, James Nichol, page 125,
- Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
- 20th century, Tenzin Gyatso (attributed)
- Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
- 20th century, Tenzin Gyatso (attributed)
- Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
- 1804, Wordsworth, The Small Celandine
- I stopped, and said with inly muttered voice,
- 'It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold:
- This neither is its courage nor its choice,
- But its necessity in being old.
- 1804, Wordsworth, The Small Celandine
- The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (law) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
- (law, in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).
Synonyms
- (state of being necessary): inevitability, certainty
Antonyms
- (state of being necessary): impossibility, contingency
- (something indispensable): luxury
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- necessity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- necessity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- cysteines
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unnecessariness
English
Etymology
unnecessary +? -ness
Noun
unnecessariness (uncountable)
- The state or characteristic of being unnecessary.
- 1808, Works of Joseph Hall, D.D, Vol. 9, edited by Josiah Pratt, London, p. 9:
- The unavoidableness of which effects hath carried some of their Casuists into an opinion, of the unnecessariness of devotion in these holy businesses: so as one says . . . "Though it be convenient, that the Communicant should have actual devotion; yet, it is not necessary."
- 1913, Arnold Bennett, The Human Machine, p. 73:
- A disciplined brain will at once show the unnecessariness of most ambitions, and will ensure that the remainder shall be conducted with reason.
- 2007, Karen von Hahn, "Unnecessary Accessories of the Rich and Famous," Globe and Mail, 15 June (retrieved 30 Aug. 2009):
- In the sad case of Paris Hilton, whose sheer unnecessariness epitomizes her career, her unnecessary accessory of choice is an SUV.
- 1808, Works of Joseph Hall, D.D, Vol. 9, edited by Josiah Pratt, London, p. 9:
Synonyms
- gratuitousness, needlessness
Antonyms
- necessariness
- necessity
unnecessariness From the web:
- what does unnecessariness mean
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