Necessity vs Opulence - What's the difference?
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The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
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, 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).
wealth
abundance, bounty, profusion
Who all the Joys and Pangs of Riches felt;
His Side-board glitter’d with imagin’d Plate;
And his proud Fancy held a va?t E?tate. * C. J. Fox: *: The most meritorious persons have always … been removed from opulence .
As nouns the difference between necessity and opulence
is that necessity is the quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite while opulence is wealth.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.
Synonyms
* (state of being necessary) inevitability, certaintyAntonyms
* (state of being necessary) impossibility, contingency * (something indispensable) luxuryDerived terms
* make a virtue of necessityExternal links
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*opulence
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(-)Quotations
* 1721 , (John Gay), A Panegyrical Epistle to Mr. Thomas Snow, Gold?mith, near Temple-Bar; Occa?ion’d by his Buying and Selling the Third South-Sea Sub?criptions, taken in by the Directors at a Thou?and per Cent'', published in 1733 in ''Miscellanies , volume 3,page 239: *: There in full Opulence a Banker dwelt,
Who all the Joys and Pangs of Riches felt;
His Side-board glitter’d with imagin’d Plate;
And his proud Fancy held a va?t E?tate. * C. J. Fox: *: The most meritorious persons have always … been removed from opulence .