necessities

plural of necessity

(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).