Dictionary Entry
necessity
necessity is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
- 2noun
The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
- 3noun
That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural.
- 4noun
That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.
- 5noun
The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
- 6noun
anything indispensable
"food and shelter are necessities of life"
"the essentials of the good life"
- 7noun
the condition of being essential or indispensable
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