Necessity synonyms
Category:
Urgency is defined as something requiring fast or swift action, or it means insistent or having a persistent quality.
vital part
That which is needed
Something fundamental.
(Econ.) The desire for a commodity together with ability to pay for it; also, the amount people are ready and able to buy at a certain price
A binding or compelling rule, duty, requirement, etc.
A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of linear algebra.
Something claimed in a formal or legal manner, especially a tract of public land staked out by a miner or homesteader.
A pressing or urgent situation:
Importance, significance, or emphasis placed on something.
The condition of lacking something.
The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life.
The quality of being inexorable.
inescapableness
The quality of being inescapable.
case of life or death
The state of being forced by circumstances
need (related)
A condition of poverty or misfortune:
requirement (related)
A necessity or prerequisite; something required or obligatory.
lack (related)
The thing that is lacking or needed
emergency (related)
Cardiac arrest is an emergency and if you find someone in cardiac arrest you should call 999 immediately.
poverty (related)
Poverty is the state of being poor, having little money or being in need of a specific quality.
Clothes considered as a group; wearing apparel.
(Uncountable, figuratively) Anything intended to supply energy or nourishment of an entity or idea.
The characteristic of being indispensable.
(Law) Those things essential to maintaining a dependent or incompetent in comfort and well-being
Something prerequisite
An establishment that cares for unwanted or stray animals and tries to find owners for them.
Water in a specified form or amount, or occurring or distributed in a specified way, or for a specified use, as drinking or washing
choice (antonym)
A person or thing chosen
contingency (antonym)
Something incidental to something else.
doubtfulness (antonym)
The state or quality of being doubtful; doubt; uncertainty.
option (antonym)
The power or freedom to choose:
possibility (antonym)
The chance of something’s happening, regardless of whether or not it actually occurs; a contingent interest in property, whether real or personal.
want (antonym)
The definition of a want is something desired or wished for.
desire (antonym)
A thing or person desired
Demand:
A basis for an action or response; a reason:
In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
Something, such as a fact or circumstance, that justifies:
Reason is the cause for something to happen or the power of your brain to think, understand and engage in logical thought.
A purpose or cause:
The grade stating this requirement
A requirement which must be satisfied before taking a course of action.
Without which not. Something that is indispensable and upon which something else relies.
why-and-wherefore
start (related)
The definition of a start is the beginning or first part of something.
The characteristic of being indispensable; indispensability.
Something that constrains.
A contrasting force or impulse of any kind
undeniability
The quality of being undeniable.
requisiteness
The state or quality of being requisite.
prerequisiteness
The state of being required
Requisite is something that is necessary or required to achieve some goal or do some task.
Something considered necessary or highly desirable.
Find another word for necessity. In this page you can discover 63 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for necessity, like: must, urgency, exigence, vital part, essential, demand, imperative, fundamental, claim, exaction and exigency.