necessity

Roget category 601

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.1. Volition in general
›› 5.1.1. Acts of volition

#601. Necessity

noun

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.

verb

lie under a necessity — befated^†, be doomed, be destined &c., in for, under the necessity of — have no choice, have no alternative — be one's fate etc. n.. to be pushed to the wall to be driven into a to be pushed to the wall to be driven into a corner, to be unable to help.
destine, doom, foredoom, devote — predestine, preordain — cast a spell etc. 992 — necessitate — compel etc. 744.

adjective

necessary, needful etc. (requisite) 630.
fated — destined etc. v. — elect — spellbound compulsory etc. (compel) 744 — uncontrollable, inevitable, unavoidable, irresistible, irrevocable, inexorable — avoidless^†, resistless.
involuntary, instinctive, automatic, blind, mechanical — unconscious, unwitting, unthinking — unintentional etc. (undesigned) 621 — impulsive etc. 612.

adverb

necessarily etc. adv. — of necessity, of course — ex necessitate rei [Lat.] — needs must — perforce etc. 744 — nolens volens [Lat.] — will he nil he, willy nilly, bon gre mal gre [Fr.], willing or unwilling, coute que coute [Fr.].
faute de mieux [Fr.] — by stress of — if need be.

phrase

it cannot be helped — there is no help for, there is no helping it — it will be, it must be, it needs to be, it must be so, it will have its way — the die is cast — jacta est alea [Lat.] — che sara sara [Fr.] — it is written —" one's days are numbered, one's fate is sealed — Fata obstant [Lat.] — diis aliter visum [Lat.] — actum me invito factus [Lat.], non est meus actus [Lat.] — aujord'hui roi demain rien [Fr.] — quisque suos patimur manes [Lat.] [Vergil]; The moving finger writes and having writ moves on.
The moving finger writes and having writ moves on. Nor all thy piety nor wit shall draw it back to cancel half a [Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam].

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