necessity

Signification (Anglais)

1. (countable, uncountable) The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
2. (countable, uncountable) The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
3. (countable, uncountable) Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
4. (countable, uncountable) Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
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) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
7. (countable, in-plural, uncountable) Indispensable requirements (of life).

Concepts

nécessité

besoin

nécessaire

exigence

condition

obligation

prescription

qualité

demande

valeur

Synonymes

need

requirement

want

essential

demand

inevitability

necessary

requisite

must

obligation

compulsion

poverty

needs

exigency

occasion

prerequisite

certainty

requisiteness

imperative

essentialness

importance

use

indispensability

knives

necessities

neediness

predicament

pricelessness

quality

require

restrictiveness

scrape

terror

urge

urgency

usefulness

value

whetstone

ineluctability

vitalness

need-be

adversity

necessitousness

advisability

call

cause

constraint

demands

difficulty

distress

Traductions

Notwendigkeit

necesidad

necessità

necessidade

noodzaak

Bedürfnis

noodzakelijkheid

αναγκαιότητα

ανάγκη

bisogno

Not

χρεία

ihtiyaç

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/nɪˈsɛsəti/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: necessite

In summary

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