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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ne•ces•si•ty /nəˈsɛsɪti/USA pronunciation n., pl. -ties. - something necessary:[countable]The poor lacked food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- the fact of being necessary or needed;
indispensability:[uncountable]the necessity of adequate housing. - requirement;
need:[countable]a necessity for a quick decision. - an unavoidable need to do something:[uncountable]not by choice but by necessity.
Idioms- Idioms of necessity, unavoidably;
necessarily:The report we wrote was of necessity rushed and full of errors.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ne•ces•si•ty (nə ses′i tē),USA pronunciation n., pl. -ties. - something necessary or indispensable:food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- the fact of being necessary or indispensable;
indispensability:the necessity of adequate housing. - an imperative requirement or need for something:the necessity for a quick decision.
- the state or fact of being necessary or inevitable:to face the necessity of testifying in court.
- an unavoidable need or compulsion to do something:not by choice but by necessity.
- a state of being in financial need;
poverty:a family in dire necessity. - Philosophythe quality of following inevitably from logical, physical, or moral laws.
- Idioms of necessity, as an inevitable result;
unavoidably;
necessarily:Our trip to China must of necessity be postponed for a while.
- Latin necessitās, equivalent. to necess(e) needful + -itās -ity
- Middle English necessite 1325–75
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged demand. See need.
- 6.See corresponding entry in Unabridged neediness, indigence, want.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: necessity /nɪˈsɛsɪtɪ/ n ( pl -ties)- (sometimes plural) something needed for a desired result; prerequisite: necessities of life
- a condition or set of circumstances, such as physical laws or social rules, that inevitably requires a certain result: it is a matter of necessity to wear formal clothes when meeting the Queen
- the state or quality of being obligatory or unavoidable
- urgent requirement, as in an emergency or misfortune: in time of necessity we must all work together
- poverty or want
- rare compulsion through laws of nature; fate
- the property of being necessary
- of necessity ⇒ inevitably; necessarily
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