necessity
必要性,必需品,必然性,必要
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Definitions
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plural ne·ces·si·ties.
- : something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- : the fact of being necessary or indispensable; indispensability: the necessity of adequate housing.
- : an imperative requirement or need for something: the necessity for a quick decision.
- : the state or fact of being necessary or inevitable: to face the necessity of testifying in court.
- : an unavoidable need or compulsion to do something: not by choice but by necessity.
- : a state of being in financial need; poverty: a family in dire necessity.
- : Philosophy. the quality of following inevitably from logical, physical, or moral laws.
Phrases
- necessity is the mother of invention
- make a virtue of necessity
- of necessity
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
When I talked to lawyers about how to delay filing a Form D, all gave the standard perfunctory response about the necessity of filing — until we went off-the-record.
The best Valentine’s Day gifts to give and receive are those given based upon both feeling and necessity.
Economists see such savings as a sign the family did not need the money for basic necessities.
We believe a far greater number of people can’t afford internet, but are sacrificing other necessities.
Every play during a pandemic is, by necessity, experimental.
I had to create plays out of necessity, because African women deserved a voice and a place on the stage.
All of these changes to college financing occurred at exactly the time when college education became a necessity.
Nazi texts proclaimed that the annihilation or expulsion of the Armenians was a “compelling necessity.”
The heartbreaking death of MTV reality TV personality Diem Brown proves the emotional necessity and value of the reality TV genre.
After all, the Prince of necessity had to focus on defeating his external enemies.
Sometimes necessity makes an honest man a knave: and a rich man a honest man, because he has no occasion to be a knave.
There was a tremendous necessity for an example of the resurrection of an ordinary man.