necessity
necessity Lexical Profile
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• noun
The state or fact of being required, indispensable, or unavoidable.
"The committee recognized the absolute necessity of upgrading the city's water infrastructure."
An indispensable thing, resource, or requirement needed for living or for a specific purpose.
"Clean drinking water, nutritious food, and adequate shelter are basic human necessities."
A state of pressing need, hardship, or poverty that compels certain actions.
"Many early settlers learned to repair their own farming tools out of sheer necessity."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Old French necessite, from Latin necessitas ('unavoidableness, compulsion, need'), derived from necesse ('unavoidable, indispensable'), originally meaning 'no backing away' (from ne- 'not' + cedere 'to yield or withdraw').