necessity
noun
1 necessity
The condition of being essential or indispensable.
Roget 804:
poverty,
indigence,
penury,
pauperism,
destitution,
want;
need,
neediness;
lack,
necessity,
privation,
distress,
difficulties,
wolf at the door.
bad circumstances,
poor circumstances,
need circumstances,
embarrassed circumstances,
reduced circumstances,
straightened circumstances;
slender means,
narrow means;
straits;
hand to mouth existence,
res angusta domi [Lat.],
low water,
impecuniosity.
beggary;
mendicancy,
mendicity†;
broken fortune,
loss of fortune;
insolvency
etc.
(nonpayment)
808.
empty pocket,
empty purse;
light purse;
beggarly account of empty boxes.
[poor people]
poor man,
pauper,
mendicant,
mumper†,
beggar,
starveling;
pauvre diable [Fr.];
fakir†,
schnorrer†;
homeless person.
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Roget 744:
compulsion,
coercion,
coaction†,
constraint,
duress,
enforcement,
press,
conscription.
force;
brute force,
main force,
physical force;
the sword,
ultima ratio [Lat.];
club law,
lynch law,
mob law,
arguementum baculinum†,
le droit du plus fort [Fr.],
martial law.
restraint
etc.
751;
necessity
etc.
601;
force majeure [Fr.];
Hobson's choice.
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Roget 611:
predestination,
preordination,
premeditation,
predeliberation†,
predetermination;
foregone conclusion,
fait accompli [Fr.];
parti pris [Fr.];
resolve,
propendency†;
intention
etc.
620;
project
etc.
626;
fate,
foredoom,
necessity.
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Roget 609a:
no choice,
Hobson's choice;
first come first served,
random selection;
necessity
etc.
601;
not a pin to choose
etc.
(equality)
27;
any,
the first that comes;
that or nothing.
neutrality,
indifference;
indecision
etc.
(irresolution)
605;
arbitrariness.
coercion
(compulsion)
744.
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Roget 474:
certainty;
necessity
etc.
601;
certitude,
surety,
assurance;
dead certainty,
moral certainty;
infallibleness
etc.
adj.;
infallibility,
reliability;
indubitableness,
inevitableness,
unquestionableness†.
gospel,
scripture,
church,
pope,
court of final appeal;
res judicata [Lat.],
ultimatum positiveness;
dogmatism,
dogmatist,
dogmatizer;
doctrinaire,
bigot,
opinionist†,
Sir Oracle;
ipse dixit [Lat.].
fact;
positive fact,
matter of fact;
fait accompli [Fr.].
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Roget 601:
involuntariness;
instinct,
blind impulse;
inborn proclivity,
innate proclivity;
native tendency,
natural tendency;
natural impulse,
predetermination.
necessity,
necessitation;
obligation;
compulsion
etc.
744;
subjection
etc.
749;
stern necessity,
hard necessity,
dire necessity,
imperious necessity,
inexorable necessity,
iron necessity,
adverse necessity;
fate;
what must be.
destiny,
destination;
fatality,
fate,
kismet,
doom,
foredoom,
election,
predestination;
preordination,
foreordination;
lot fortune;
fatalism;
inevitableness
etc.
adj.;
spell
etc.
993.
star,
stars;
planet,
planets;
astral influence;
sky,
Fates,
Parcae,
Sisters three,
book of fate;
God's will,
will of Heaven;
wheel of Fortune,
Ides of March,
Hobson's choice.
last shift,
last resort;
dernier ressort [Fr.];
pis aller
etc.
(substitute)
147 [Fr.];
necessaries
etc.
(requirement)
630.
necessarian†,
necessitarian†;
fatalist;
automaton.
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Dutch: necessiteit, nood, noodzaak, noodzakelijkheid, onvermijdelijkheid, urgentie
2 necessity
Anything indispensable.
synonyms: essential, necessary, requirement, requisite.
Roget 630:
requirement,
need,
wants,
necessities;
necessaries,
necessaries of life;
stress,
exigency,
pinch,
sine qua non,
matter of necessity;
case of need,
case of life or death.
needfulness,
essentiality,
necessity,
indispensability,
urgency.
requisition
etc.
(request)
765,
(exaction)
741;
run upon;
demand,
call for.
charge,
claim,
command,
injunction,
mandate,
order,
precept.
desideratum
etc.
(desire)
865;
want
etc.
(deficiency)
640.
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Dutch: vereiste
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