necessity
Significado (Inglés)
- (countable, uncountable) The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
- (countable, uncountable) The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
- (countable, uncountable) Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
- (countable, uncountable) Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
- (countable, uncountable) The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
- (countable, uncountable) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
- (countable, in-plural, uncountable) Indispensable requirements (of life).
Sinónimos
need-be
Traducións
Frecuencia
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/nɪˈsɛsəti/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)
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.
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