necessity
21necessity — /neuh ses i tee/, n., pl. necessities. 1. something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life. 2. the fact of being necessary or indispensable; indispensability: the necessity of adequate housing. 3. an imperative… …
22necessity — If a being is necessary then it is impossible that it should not have existed. God is held by many Christian philosophers to be a necessary being. There are, however, different types of necessity, and there is some dispute over precisely which …
23necessity — ne•ces•si•ty [[t]nəˈsɛs ɪ ti[/t]] n. pl. ties 1) something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life[/ex] 2) the fact of being necessary or indispensable; indispensability: the necessity of adequate housing[/ex] 3)… …
24necessity — n. (pl. ies) 1 a an indispensible thing; a necessary (central heating is a necessity). b (usu. foll. by of) indispensability (the necessity of a warm overcoat). 2 a state of things or circumstances enforcing a certain course (there was a… …
25necessity — noun 1) the microwave is now regarded as a necessity Syn: essential, indispensable item, requisite, prerequisite, necessary, basic, sine qua non, desideratum; informal must have 2) political necessity forced him to resign Syn: force of… …
26necessity — A compulsion of natural forces or the forces of man. Less pompously, a toilet or water closet. Something necessary. See necessaries; public necessity; public necessity and convenience; way of necessity; work of necessity …
27necessity — A proposition is necessary if it could not have been false. We can contemplate various possibilities describing how things might have been but are not; if in all these possibilities a proposition is true, then it is true in all possible worlds or …
28necessity — n 1. requirement, requisite, prerequisite, necessary; makings, what it takes; necessaries, necessities, essentials, bare essentials or necessities; Latin, sine qua non. 2. indispensability, essentiality, needfulness, Archaic. necessitude;… …
29necessity — See: MAKE A VIRTUE OF NECESSITY, OF NECESSITY …
30necessity — See: MAKE A VIRTUE OF NECESSITY, OF NECESSITY …
