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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