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The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
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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).
Lacking a definition or value.
(mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
As a noun necessity
is the quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.As an adjective undefined is
lacking a definition or value.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
* *Anagrams
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Adjective
(wikipedia undefined) (-)- The result of division by zero is undefined .