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

1. noun. The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
2. noun. The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
3. noun. That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural.
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.
6. noun. anything indispensable

   "food and shelter are necessities of life"

   "the essentials of the good life"

   Synonyms: essential, necessary, requirement, requisite

7. noun. the condition of being essential or indispensable

Synonyms

essential, necessary, requirement, requisite

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in necessity:

cysteines

Common word forms

necessities

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