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Event vs Necessitude - What's the difference?

event | necessitude |

As nouns the difference between event and necessitude

is that event is blowhole (of cetaceans) while necessitude is (rare) the state or characteristic of being in need; neediness.

event

English

(wikipedia event)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An occurrence; something that happens.
  • * Macaulay
    • the events of his early years
  • An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
  • *, II.3.3:
    • hard beginnings have many times prosperous events  […].
  • * 1707 , , by Eccles and Congrieve; scene 8
    • Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event .
  • * Young
    • dark doubts between the promise and event
    In the event , he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
  • (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
  • (computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
  • (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
    • If X is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Examples of events could be: X = 1, X = 2, X \ge 5, X \not = 4, and X \isin \{1,3,5\}.
  • (obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Leave we him to his events .
  • (lb) An episode of severe health conditions.

    • Derived terms

    * blessed event * credit event * current events * doomsday event * eventful * event horizon * eventless * eventual * in the event * K-T extinction event * media event * quick time event * risk event * sentinel event * social event * speciation event * to be wise after the event

    External links

    * * 1000 English basic words

    necessitude

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

    • Usage notes

    * (term), (necessitousness), (necessitation), (necessariness) are all nouns closely related to (necessity), but they tend to have narrower ranges of usage than the term necessity''. The principal sense of ''necessitude'' and ''necessitousness'' is impoverishment, but the plural form of the former ((necessitudes)) denotes a set of circumstances which is inevitable or unavoidable. ''Necessitation'' is used to suggest necessity as a philosophical or cosmic principle. ''Necessariness tends to be used to stress a direct connection to the adjective (necessary).

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