Need vs Necessitude - What's the difference?
need | necessitude |
A requirement for something.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
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Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
To be necessary (to someone).
* , II.ix:
(label) To have an absolute requirement for.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Tom Fordyce, work=BBC Sport
, title= (label) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= (label) To be obliged or required (to do something).
(label) To be required; to be necessary.
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
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, title= (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 need and necessitude
is that need is a requirement for something while necessitude is (rare) the state or characteristic of being in need; neediness.As a verb need
is to be necessary (to someone).need
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) need, nede, partly from (etyl) . More at (l). Old norse nauð(r) ("powerty,distress, lack of")Noun
(en noun)- I have no need to beg.
- Be governed by your needs , not by your fancy.
It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.
- Famine is in thy cheeks; / Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with "need": urgent, dire, desperate, strong, unmet, bad, basic, critical, essential, big, terrible, modest, elementary, daily, everyday, special, educational, environmental, human, personal, financial, emotional, medical, nutritional, spiritual, public, developmental, organizational, legal, fundamental, audio-visual, psychological, corporate, societal, psychosocial, functional, additional, caloric, private, monetary, physiological, mental.Derived terms
(Derived terms) * if need be * in need, in need of; a friend in need is a friend indeed * need-based * needful, needfully, needfulness * needless, needlessly, needlessness * needy, needily, needinessEtymology 2
From (etyl) neden, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- More ample spirit, then hitherto was wount, / Here needes me.
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- When we have done it, we have done all that is in our power, and all that needs .
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Usage notes
* The verb is construed in a few different ways: ** With a direct object, as in “I need your help.” ** With a to -infinitive, as in “I need to go.” Here, the subject of serves implicitly as the subject of the infinitive. ** With a clause of the form “for [object] to [verb phrase]”, or simply “[object] to [verb phrase]” as in “I need for this to happen” or “I need this to happen.” In both variants, the object serves as the subject of the infinitive. ** As a modal verb, with a bare infinitive; in negative polarity contexts, such as questions (“Need I say more?”), with negative expressions such as not (“It need not happen today”; “No one need ever know”), and with similar constructions (“There need only be a few”; “it need be signed only by the president”; “I need hardly explain the error”). . ** With a gerund-participle, as in “The car needs washing”, or (in certain dialects) with a past participle, as in “The car needs washed”[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003106.html] (both meaning roughly “The car needs to be washed”). ** With a direct object and a predicative complement, as in “We need everyone here on time” (meaning roughly “We need everyone to be here on time”) or “I need it gone” (meaning roughly “I need it to be gone”). ** In certain dialects, and colloquially in certain others, with an unmarked reflexive pronoun, as in “I need me a car.” * A sentence such as “I need you to sit down” or “you need to sit down” is more polite than the bare command “sit down”, but less polite than “please sit down”. It is considered somewhat condescending and infantilizing, hence dubbed by some “the kindergarten imperative”, but is quite common in American usage.“You Need To Read This: How need to vanquished have to, must, and should.” by Ben Yagoda, Slate, July 17, 2006