Natural vs Necessitude - What's the difference?
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That exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem.
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, title= Of or relating to nature.
Without artificial additives.
As expected; reasonable.
* Addison
(music) Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted .
(music) Produced by natural organs, such as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.
(music) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.
Without, or prior to, modification or adjustment.
* Macaulay
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5 Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Connected by the ties of consanguinity.
* J. H. Newman
(obsolete) Born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard.
(of sexual intercourse) Without a condom.
* 1615 , Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia , Richmond 1957, page 3:
(music) A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental, or the symbol used to indicate such a note.
One with an innate talent at or for something.
An almost white colour, with tints of grey, yellow or brown; originally that of natural fabric.
(archaic) One with a simple mind; a fool or idiot.
* 1597 , , by Shakespeare, Act 2 Scene 4
One's natural life.
* 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, page 155:
*:‘Sergeant-Major Robinson came in in the middle of it, and you've never seen a man look more surprised in your natural .’
(rare) The state or characteristic of being in need; neediness.
*1870 , "Lord Kilgobbin," The Cornhill Magazine , vol. 22, p. 521:
*:It had been of all things the most harassing and wearying—a life of dreary necessitude —a perpetual struggle with debt.
*2001 , Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Cause , ISBN 9780751525380, p. 408:
*:Even if she could have faced life without him, she could not go through it all again, the bankruptcy and shame and necessitude .
(rare, usually, pluralized) A circumstance or event which is necessary or unavoidable, especially because it is a requirement of a social role or natural state of affairs.
*1814 , Félix de Beaujour, Sketch of the United States of North America trans. William Waldon, London, p. 169:
*:The Americans. . . fear not the necessitudes of fortune.
*1872 , James Parsons, "The Ancient Commonwealth," The American Law Register (1852-1891) , vol. 20, no. 8, New Series vol. 11, p. 485:
*:He lives with them in the isolated home of the tribe and enters into the mysterious communion with the domestic gods who still take part in the necessitudes of the family.
*1995 , Michael W. McConnell and Edmund Burke, "Establishment and Toleration in Edmund Burke's 'Constitution of Freedom'," The Supreme Court Review , Vol. 1995, p. 437:
*:As Conor Cruise O'Brien has pointed out, this passage has a "poignant ring," in light of the probable fact that Burke's father was one of those who betrayed his "duty" by sacrificing his "opinion of eternal happiness" to the necessitudes of legal practice.
(rare, chiefly, philosophy) Necessity.
*1981 , Graham Dawson, "Justified True Belief Is Knowledge," The Philosophical Quarterly , vol. 31, no. 125: p. 328:
*:In Popperian terms, it demonstrates the necessitude of public debate.
(archaic) A relation or connection between people or things.Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
* 1845 , Jeremy Taylor,The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life, described in the History of the Life and Death of our Ever-Blessed Saviour, Jesus Christ , Vol. 1, London, p. 14:
*:The relation and necessitude is trifling and loose, and they are all equally contemptible; because the mind entertains no loves or union.
In lang=en terms the difference between natural and necessitude
is that natural is a note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental, or the symbol ♮ used to indicate such a note while necessitude is the state or characteristic of being in need; neediness.In archaic terms the difference between natural and necessitude
is that natural is one with a simple mind; a fool or idiot while necessitude is a relation or connection between people or things.As nouns the difference between natural and necessitude
is that natural is a native inhabitant of a place, country etc while necessitude is the state or characteristic of being in need; neediness.As an adjective natural
is that exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem.natural
English
(wikipedia natural)Alternative forms
* naturall (obsolete)Adjective
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- His prison sentence was the natural consequence of a life of crime.
- What can be more natural than the circumstances in the behaviour of those women who had lost their husbands on this fatal day?
- the natural motion of a gravitating body
- with strong natural sense, and rare force of will
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- To leave his wife, to leave his babes, / He wants the natural touch.
- natural friends
- a natural child
Synonyms
* (as expected) inevitable, necessary, reasonable * (without a condom)Antonyms
* (exists in an ecosystem) aberrant, abnormal, artificial * (as expected) aberrant, abnormal, freak, unexpected, unreasonableDerived terms
* naturally * naturalness * natural advantages * natural aging * natural breast * natural business year * natural child * natural childbirth * natural daughter * natural death * natural disaster * natural fiber * natural food * natural frequency * natural gas * natural historian * natural history * natural killer cell * natural language * natural language processing * natural law * natural light * natural logarithm * natural medicine * natural monopoly * natural number * natural philosophy * natural religion * natural resources * natural scale * natural science * natural selection * natural slope * natural son * natural theology * natural virtue * natural wastage * natural world * natural-born * naturalise/naturalize * naturalist * unnaturalNoun
(en noun)- I coniecture and assure my selfe that yee cannot be ignorant by what meanes this peace hath bin thus happily both for our proceedings and the welfare of the Naturals concluded [...].
- He's a natural on the saxophone.
- (Mercutio) [...] this drivelling love is like a great natural , / that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.