necessity
116 synonyms found
- absolute certainty
- absoluteness
- act of God
- assuredness
- bare cupboard
- bare necessities
- bare subsistence
- beggarliness
- beggary
- call for
- certain knowledge
- certainness
- certainty
- certitude
- coaction
- coercion
- compulsion
- compulsiveness
- dead certainty
- decree
- definiteness
- demand
- demand for
- deprivation
- desideration
- desideratum
- destitution
- determinacy
- determinateness
- duress
- empty purse
- enforcement
- essential
- exigency
- fatefulness
- force majeure
- forcing
- foredestiny
- foregone conclusion
- foreknowledge
- foreordination
- grinding poverty
- gripe
- hand-to-mouth existence
- homelessness
- impoverishment
- indefeasibility
- indigence
- indispensable
- indispensableness
- ineluctability
- inerrability
- inerrancy
- inescapableness
- inevasibleness
- inevitability
- inevitable accident
- inevitableness
- inexorability
- infallibilism
- infallibility
- inflexibility
- irresistibility
- irrevocability
- lack
- mendicancy
- moneylessness
- must
- must item
- necessaries
- necessities
- necessitousness
- need
- need for
- needfulness
- neediness
- nonambiguity
- noncontingency
- obligement
- pauperism
- pauperization
- penury
- pinch
- positiveness
- predestination
- predetermination
- preordination
- prerequirement
- prerequisite
- prescience
- privation
- probatum
- proved fact
- relentlessness
- requirement
- requisite
- requisiteness
- requisition
- sine qua non
- sureness
- surety
- the necessary
- the needful
- truth
- unambiguity
- unavoidable casualty
- unavoidableness
- uncontrollability
- undeflectability
- unequivocalness
- univocity
- unmistakableness
- unpreventability
- unyieldingness
- vis major
- want
Definition
(n) :
the quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness; the condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want