necessity :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

n. the condition of being essential or indispensable

need, requirement, essential, requisite, necessary

n. anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"

condition, status

n. a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"

event, case

n. a special set of circumstances; "in that event, the first possibility is excluded"; "it may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled"

complaint, ailment, ill

n. an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

press, pressure, imperativeness, insistence, insistency

n. the state of demanding notice or attention; "the insistence of their hunger"; "the press of business matters"

need, requirement, necessity, essential, requisite, necessary

n. anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"

prerequisite, requirement

n. something that is required in advance; "Latin was a prerequisite for admission"

order

n. established customary state (especially of society); "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order"

condition, status

n. a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"

necessity

n. the condition of being essential or indispensable

prerequisite, requirement

n. something that is required in advance; "Latin was a prerequisite for admission"

order

n. established customary state (especially of society); "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order"

fundamental, fundamental frequency, first harmonic

n. the lowest tone of a harmonic series

basic, staple

n. (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant

inessential

n. anything that is not essential; "they discarded all their inessentials"

etcetera, etceteras, extra, extras

n. additional unspecified odds and ends; more of the same; "his report was full of etceteras"

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