Connection vs Necessitude - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The act of connecting.
The point at which two or more things are connected.
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A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
An established communications or transportation link.
(transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service
A kinship relationship between people.
(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.
As nouns the difference between connection and necessitude
is that connection is (uncountable) the act of connecting while necessitude is (rare) the state or characteristic of being in need; neediness.connection
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Alternative forms
* connexion , (abbreviation)Noun
- the connection between overeating and obesity
- My headache has no connection with me going out last night.
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- As we were the only people in the room to laugh at the joke, I felt a connection between us.
- computers linked by a network connection
- I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection .
- The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train.