Definition of necessity

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Necessity (n.) The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.

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Freedom :: Freedom (n.) Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will..
Must :: Must (v. i. / auxiliary) To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws..
Duress :: Duress (n.) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense..
Pressing :: Pressing (a.) Urgent; exacting; importunate; as, a pressing necessity..
Wide :: Wide (superl.) Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the like..
Constraint :: Constraint (n.) The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity..
Fate :: Fate (n.) A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.
Extemporize :: Extemporize (v. t.) To do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc..
Prodigal :: Prodigal (n.) One who expends money extravagantly, viciously, or without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a waster; a spendthrift..
Needs :: Needs (adv.) Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and equivalent to of need..
Behoove :: Behoove (v. t.) To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally..
Needly :: Needly (adv.) Necessarily; of necessity.
Necessarian :: Necessarian (n.) An advocate of the doctrine of philosophical necessity; a nacessitarian.
Stoic :: Stoic (n.) A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed..
Drive :: Drive (v. t.) To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like..
Needscost :: Needscost (adv.) Of necessity.
Need :: Need (adv.) Of necessity. See Needs.
Necessity :: Necessity (n.) The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism..
Ask :: Ask (v. t.) To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity; as, what price do you ask?.
Distress :: Distress (n.) A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc..
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