Word Meanings - NECESSITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism. Of necessity, by necessary consequence; by compulsion, or irresistible power; perforce. Syn.

Additional info about word: NECESSITY

The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism. Of necessity, by necessary consequence; by compulsion, or irresistible power; perforce. Syn. -- See Need. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness. 2. The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want. Urge the necessity and state of times. Shak. The extreme poverty and necessity his majesty was in. Clarendon. 3. That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural. These should be hours for necessities, Not for delights. Shak. What was once to me Mere matter of the fancy, now has grown The vast necessity of heart and life. Tennyson. 4. That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality. So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NECESSITY)

• Destiny
• Fate
• decree
• lot
• fortune
• predestination
• necessity
• doom
• end
• Emergency
• Crisis
• conjunction
• pitch
• embarrassment
• strait
• exigency
• casualty
• difficulty
• Necessity
• destiny
• Obligation
• Duty
• compulsion
• contract
• bond
• covenant
• belief
• Occasion
• Conjuncture
• opportunity
• occurrence
• cause
• need
• event
• reason
• opening
• ground

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of NECESSITY)

• Expand
• amplify
• dilate
• elongate
• reverse
• cancel
• abandon

Related words: (words related to NECESSITY)

• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• EVENT
  1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. "The events of his early years." Macaulay. To watch quietly the course of events. Jowett There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. Eccl. ix.
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• OCCASIONALISM
  The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.
• STRAIT
  A variant of Straight.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• CANCELLATE
  Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
• REASONLESS
  1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.
• EVENTILATION
  The act of eventilating; discussion. Bp. Berkely.
• REASONABLY
  1. In a reasonable manner. 2. Moderately; tolerably. "Reasonably perfect in the language." Holder.
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.