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Showing words for NECESSITY using the English dictionary

9 Letter Words for Necessity

cysteines, necessity

8 Letter Words for Necessity

centesis, cityness, cysteine, cysteins, cystines, sistence, sistency, syenites

7 Letter Words for Necessity

cystein, cystine, encysts, entices, essency, incests, insects, scenist, scenite, seitens, sestine, sneesty, syenite, synetic, tinseys

6 Letter Words for Necessity

ceinte, censes, citess, ctenes, cyeses, cyesis, cystin, cystis, ecesis, encist, encyst, entice, enties, esnecy, incest, insect, insets, nessie, nicest, nicety, nieces, scenes, scents, scient, seines, seiten, sensei, seyens, sients, sisten, sneest, steens, steins, sycees, sycite, tenses, tessin, tinsey, yenite, yentes

5 Letter Words for Necessity

ceint, cense, centi, cents, cesse, ceste, cesti, cetes, cetin, cines, cists, citee, cites, csnet, ctene, cysts, cytes, enets, ensis, entsi, entsy, esnes, essen, etens, eyess, ineye, insee, inset, neist, nests, nesty, netes, niece, nisse, scene, scent, scyes, sects, seine, seise, seity, sence, senit, sense, sente, senti, sents, sesey, sesti, seyen, sices, siens, sient, siest, since, sines, sites, snees, snies, snite, snits, snyes, steen, stein, stens, sties, stine, sycee, syces, syens, syncs, synes, sysin, teens, teeny, teise, tenes, tense, tices, tiens, tines, tinsy, tsine, tyees, tynes, yente, yeses, yests, yetis, yince, yinst, yites

4 Letter Words for Necessity

cees, cene, cens, cent, cess, cest, cete, ceti, cine, cist, cite, cits, city, cyst, cyte, eine, ency, enes, ense, eses, esne, esse, ests, eten, etic, eyen, eyes, eyne, ices, inst, isnt, itsy, neet, nese, ness, nest, nete, neti, nets, nice, nies, nist, nits, nsec, nyes, nyet, scet, scsi, scye, scyt, secs, sect, secy, seen, sees, seis, seit, sene, sens, sent, sese, sets, seys, sice, sics, sien, sine, sins, sise, sist, site, sits, snee, snit, snye, sten, stey, stie, syce, syen, syes, sync, syne, syst, teen, tees, tene, tens, tice, tics, tien, ties, tinc, tine, tins, tiny, tyee, tyes, tyin, tyne, ycie, yees, yeni, yens, yese, yest, yeti, yins, yite

3 Letter Words for Necessity

cee, cen, cie, cis, cit, cns, csi, cst, cte, ctn, cts, ect, eec, een, enc, ene, ens, esc, ese, ess, est, etc, ety, eye, eyn, ice, icy, inc, ins, int, ise, isn, ist, its, nee, nei, net, nie, nis, nit, nye, nys, sci, sct, sec, see, sei, sen, set, sey, sic, sie, sin, sis, sit, sny, sse, sty, sye, syn, tec, tee, ten, tes, tic, tie, tin, tis, tsi, tss, tye, yee, yen, yes, yet, yin, yis

Definitions for Necessity

[1] something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
[2] the fact of being necessary or indispensable; indispensability: the necessity of adequate housing.
[3] an imperative requirement or need for something: the necessity for a quick decision.
[4] the state or fact of being necessary or inevitable: to face the necessity of testifying in court.
[5] an unavoidable need or compulsion to do something: not by choice but by necessity.
[6] a state of being in financial need; poverty: a family in dire necessity.
[7] Philosophy . the quality of following inevitably from logical, physical, or moral laws.
[8] of necessity , as an inevitable result; unavoidably; necessarily: Our trip to China must of necessity be postponed for a while.
[9] (sometimes plural) something needed for a desired result; prerequisite necessities of life
[10] a condition or set of circumstances, such as physical laws or social rules, that inevitably requires a certain result it is a matter of necessity to wear formal clothes when meeting the Queen
[11] the state or quality of being obligatory or unavoidable
[12] urgent requirement, as in an emergency or misfortune in time of necessity we must all work together
[13] poverty or want
[14] rare compulsion through laws of nature; fate
[15] philosophy a condition, principle, or conclusion that cannot be otherwise the constraining force of physical determinants on all aspects of life Compare freedom (def. 8)
[16] logic the property of being necessary a statement asserting that some property is essential or statement is necessarily true the operator that indicates that the expression it modifies is true in all possible worlds Usual symbol: □ , ∟
[17] of necessity inevitably; necessarily

Words related to Necessity

requirement, precondition, prerequisite, fundamental, obligation, essential, urgency, claim, privation, essence, inexorableness, demand, want, call, imperative, compulsion, cause, exaction, duress, exigency

Words nearby Necessity

necessitarian, necessitarianism, necessitate, necessitous, necessitude, necessity, necessity is the mother of invention, nechako, neches, necho, neck

Origin of Necessity

1325–75; Middle English necessite < Latin necessitās, equivalent to necess(e ) needful + -itās -ity

Other words from Necessity

non·ne·ces·si·ty , noun, plural non·ne·ces·si·ties.
su·per·ne·ces·si·ty , noun, plural su·per·ne·ces·si·ties.

Synonyms for Necessity

essential, fundamental, obligation, precondition, prerequisite, requirement, urgency, call, cause, claim, compulsion, demand, desideratum, duress, essence, exaction, exigency, godsend, imperative, indispensability, inevitability, inexorableness, must, necessary, pinch, privation, requisite, stress, vitals, want, life or death, needfulness, no alternative, no choice, sine qua non, undeniability, vital part