Definitions for necessity

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necessity ne·ces·si·ty

Spelling: [nuh-ses-i-tee]

IPA: /nəˈsɛs ɪ ti/

Necessity is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 267 anagrams from letters in necessity (ceeinssty).

Definitions for necessity

noun

1. something necessary or indispensable:
2. the fact of being necessary or indispensable; indispensability:
3. an imperative requirement or need for something:
4. the state or fact of being necessary or inevitable:
5. an unavoidable need or compulsion to do something:
6. a state of being in financial need; poverty:
7. Philosophy. the quality of following inevitably from logical, physical, or moral laws.

Idioms

1. of necessity, as an inevitable result; unavoidably; necessarily:

Origin of necessity

1325-75; Middle English necessite Latin necessitās, equivalent to necess(e) needful + -itās -ity

Examples for necessity

She made a virtue of necessity; and the man was quite another man with her. '

I had to create plays out of necessity, because African women deserved a voice and a place on the stage.

And of necessity, even the noble have their moments of deshabille.

To Kate, for instance, she was a necessity of existence, like light or air.

Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

That was galling for those who described the invasion of Iraq as a conflict of choice, not necessity.

You think I must of necessity, as matters are circumstanced, be Solmes's wife.

After all, the Prince of necessity had to focus on defeating his external enemies.

The way San Pedro Prison functions is a necessity as a result, Bolivian journalist Aldo Medinaceli explained to me.

All of these changes to college financing occurred at exactly the time when college education became a necessity.