necessity

necessity
n
1. requirement, requisite, prerequisite, necessary; makings, what it takes; necessaries, necessities, essentials, bare essentials or necessities; Latin, sine qua non.
2. indispensability, essentiality, needfulness, Archaic. necessitude; compulsoriness, obligatoriness, mandatoriness.
3. need, want, desire, demand, call for; essential, indispensable, must, must-have, must item, imperative, exigency, urgency, urgent need, dire necessity, matter of life and death or matter of life or death; matter of necessity, case of need.
4. inevitability, inescapability, ineluctability, unavoidability, inevasibility; certainty, certitude, Inf. sure thing, Inf. sure bet; choicelessness, no choice, no alternative, Hobson's choice.
5. compulsion, obligation, obligement, necessitation, constraint; pressure, high pressure, high-pressure tactics or methods, duress; force, coercion, Inf. the strong arm, Inf. strong-arm tactics.
6. indigence, penury, impecuniousness, impoverishment, neediness, necessitousness; poverty, destitution, privation, beggary, pauperism, pennilessness, hand-to-mouth existence; straits, narrow straits, straitened or narrow or reduced or embarrassed circumstances; poor house, poor farm, wolf at the door, bare cupboard.
7. of necessity
necessarily, perforce, by force of circumstances; willy-nilly, like it or not; consequently, as a result. See alsonecessarily(defs.1, 2).

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