noun
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The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
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I bought a new table out of necessity. My old one was ruined.
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The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack
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Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
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A tent is a necessity if you plan on camping.
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Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power
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The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
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Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
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doctrine of necessity
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(in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).