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necessity

/nuh-ses-i-tee/US // nəˈsɛs ɪ ti //UK // (nɪˈsɛsɪtɪ) //

必要性,必需品,必然性,必要

Related Words

requirement要求,需求,需要,规定precondition先决条件,前提条件,先決條件,前提prerequisite先决条件,前提条件,前提是,前提fundamental基本,基本的,根本,基础obligation义务,责任,职责,任务essential重要的,重要,重要性,重要的是urgency迫切性,紧迫性,紧急性,急迫性claim声称,宣称,主张,要求privation匮乏,隐私,私有化,匮乏性essence精髓,精华,精英,精粹inexorableness无可奈何,不可阻挡的力量,不可抗拒性,不可阻挡demand要求,需求,需求量,需求方面want想,要,想要,希望call呼叫,称呼,调用,打电话给imperative势在必行,当务之急,当务之急是,势在必得compulsion强迫性,强迫症,强迫,强迫感cause原因,导致,原因是,引起exaction征收,征收费用,收费,征税duress胁迫,逼迫,胁迫性,胁迫症exigency迫切性,紧迫性,迫切需求,危急情况

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ne·ces·si·ties.

    • : something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
    • : the fact of being necessary or indispensable; indispensability: the necessity of adequate housing.
    • : an imperative requirement or need for something: the necessity for a quick decision.
    • : the state or fact of being necessary or inevitable: to face the necessity of testifying in court.
    • : an unavoidable need or compulsion to do something: not by choice but by necessity.
    • : a state of being in financial need; poverty: a family in dire necessity.
    • : Philosophy. the quality of following inevitably from logical, physical, or moral laws.

Phrases

  • necessity is the mother of invention
  • make a virtue of necessity
  • of necessity

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounneed, essentiality
Forms: necessities
Synonyms
essential重要的,重要,重要性,重要的是fundamental基本,基本的,根本,基础obligation义务,责任,职责,任务precondition先决条件,前提条件,先決條件,前提prerequisite先决条件,前提条件,前提是,前提requirement要求,需求,需要,规定urgency迫切性,紧迫性,紧急性,急迫性call呼叫,称呼,调用,打电话给cause原因,导致,原因是,引起claim声称,宣称,主张,要求compulsion强迫性,强迫症,强迫,强迫感demand要求,需求,需求量,需求方面desideratum本意是,本意是指,本愿,本意是什么duress胁迫,逼迫,胁迫性,胁迫症essence精髓,精华,精英,精粹exaction征收,征收费用,收费,征税exigency迫切性,紧迫性,迫切需求,危急情况godsend天赐良机,天赐之物,神的恩赐,天赐的礼物imperative势在必行,当务之急,当务之急是,势在必得indispensability不可或缺性,不可缺少性,必不可少,不可或缺的inevitability必然性,不可避免地,不可避免的,不可避免inexorableness无可奈何,不可阻挡的力量,不可抗拒性,不可阻挡must必须,一定要,必须的,须necessary必要的,必要,必要时pinch钳制,掐死,掐断,钳子privation匮乏,隐私,私有化,匮乏性requisite所需的,所需,必要的,必需品stress压力,压力大,压力过大vitals生命体征,生命特征,生命迹象,生命要素want想,要,想要,希望life or death生或死,生死攸关,生死,生死关头needfulness需要性,需要,必要性,需求性no alternative无选择,无替代方案,没有其他选择,没有替代方案no choice没有选择,无选择,无可选择,无可奈何sine qua non必备条件,必不可少的条件,必不可少,必要条件undeniability不可否认,不可否认性,无可否认性,不可否认的vital part重要部分,重要的部分,重要组成部分,关键部分

Examples

  • When I talked to lawyers about how to delay filing a Form D, all gave the standard perfunctory response about the necessity of filing — until we went off-the-record.

  • The best Valentine’s Day gifts to give and receive are those given based upon both feeling and necessity.

  • Economists see such savings as a sign the family did not need the money for basic necessities.

  • We believe a far greater number of people can’t afford internet, but are sacrificing other necessities.

  • Every play during a pandemic is, by necessity, experimental.

  • I had to create plays out of necessity, because African women deserved a voice and a place on the stage.

  • All of these changes to college financing occurred at exactly the time when college education became a necessity.

  • Nazi texts proclaimed that the annihilation or expulsion of the Armenians was a “compelling necessity.”

  • The heartbreaking death of MTV reality TV personality Diem Brown proves the emotional necessity and value of the reality TV genre.

  • After all, the Prince of necessity had to focus on defeating his external enemies.

  • Sometimes necessity makes an honest man a knave: and a rich man a honest man, because he has no occasion to be a knave.

  • There was a tremendous necessity for an example of the resurrection of an ordinary man.

  • Ha—assure you we quite understand; no necessity to say another word about it.

  • The proudest man in Christendom has found no friend in his extremest necessity, but you his bitterest enemy!

  • Quiet and good natured, when necessity arose he never failed to assert his authority.

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