Extremity vs Necessity - What's the difference?
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The most extreme or furthest point of something.
An extreme measure.
A hand or foot.
A limb (major appendage of human or animal such as a leg an arm or a wing)
The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
That which is necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
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That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.
* 1804 , Wordsworth,
The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
(legal) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act .
(legal, in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).
Extremity is a related term of necessity.
As nouns the difference between extremity and necessity
is that extremity is the most extreme or furthest point of something while necessity is the quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.extremity
English
Noun
(extremities)- causes one to not be able to move one's extremities .
Synonyms
* (furthest point of something) tip * (major appendage of human or animal) limbExternal links
* *necessity
Noun
(necessities)Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul.}}
- Love and compassion are necessities , not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
- I stopped, and said with inly muttered voice,
- 'It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold:
- This neither is its courage nor its choice,
- But its necessity in being old.