Necessity vs Unnecessariness - What's the difference?
necessity | unnecessariness | Antonyms |
The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
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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).
The state or characteristic of being unnecessary.
* 1808 , Works of Joseph Hall, D.D , Vol. 9, edited by Josiah Pratt, London,
* 1913 , Arnold Bennett, The Human Machine? ,
* 2007 , Karen von Hahn, "
Unnecessariness is a antonym of necessity.
As nouns the difference between necessity and unnecessariness
is that necessity is (quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite) The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite while unnecessariness is the state or characteristic of being unnecessary.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
*unnecessariness
English
Noun
(-)p. 9:
- The unavoidableness of which effects hath carried some of their Casuists into an opinion, of the unnecessariness of devotion in these holy businesses: so as one says . . . "Though it be convenient, that the Communicant should have actual devotion; yet, it is not necessary."
p. 73:
- A disciplined brain will at once show the unnecessariness of most ambitions, and will ensure that the remainder shall be conducted with reason.
Unnecessary Accessories of the Rich and Famous," Globe and Mail , 15 June (retrieved 30 Aug. 2009):
- In the sad case of Paris Hilton, whose sheer unnecessariness epitomizes her career, her unnecessary accessory of choice is an SUV.