Usually means: Essential requirement for existence, survival.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word necessity:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. necessity: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. necessity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. necessity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. necessity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. necessity: Vocabulary.com
  6. Necessity, necessity: Wordnik
  7. necessity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. necessity: Wiktionary
  9. necessity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. necessity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. necessity: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. necessity: Dictionary.com
  13. necessity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Necessity (criminal law), Necessity (novel), Necessity (tort), Necessity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Necessity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. necessity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. necessity: Rhymezone
  18. necessity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. necessity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Necessity: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. necessity: Free Dictionary
  22. necessity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. necessity: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. necessity: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. necessity: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. necessity: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Necessity: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. Necessity (logic), Necessity (modal logic), necessity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. necessity: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. necessity: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Necessity: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. necessity: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Necessity: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
▸ noun:  The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
▸ noun:  Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
▸ noun:  Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
▸ noun:  The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
▸ noun:  (law) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
▸ noun:  (law, in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).

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necessary, essential, requisite, requirement, impossibility, necessitation, importance, imperative, impracticality, unavoidability, more...

Opposite:
luxury, optionality, dispensability, nonessential, superfluity

Phrases:
of necessity, by necessity, Military necessity, logical necessity, Medical necessity, more...

Adjectives:
absolute, economic, urgent, military, logical, political, practical, vital, natural, dire, moral

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Similar:
necessary, essential, requisite, requirement, impossibility, necessitation, importance, imperative, impracticality, unavoidability, more...

Opposite:
luxury, optionality, dispensability, nonessential, superfluity

Phrases:
of necessity, by necessity, Military necessity, logical necessity, Medical necessity, fort necessity, Metaphysical necessity, necessity defense, manifest necessity, operational necessity, more...

Adjectives:
absolute, economic, urgent, military, logical, political, practical, vital, natural, dire, moral

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     white,     black,     olive, more...



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