necessity

  1. Noun.  The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
  2. Noun.  The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
  3. Noun.  That which is necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
  4. Noun.  That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.
  5. Noun.  The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.

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