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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'necessity' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions necessity noun (necessities) The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness. The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want. That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. - q:Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality. The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism. Translations:         Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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