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Another word for necessity

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necessity

n.

The state of being required
need, compulsion, constraint, pressure, obligation, needfulness, essentiality, indispensability, undeniability, requisiteness, prerequisiteness; see also need 3, requirement 2.
That which is needed
need, want, requisite, vital part, essential, demand, imperative, fundamental, claim, exaction, desideratum, must*; see also lack 2, need 3, requirement 2.
The state of being forced by circumstances
exigency, pinch, stress, urgency, extremity, destitution, privation, obligation, inexorableness, inescapableness, case of life or death; see also emergency, poverty 1, 2. See syn. study at need.

of necessity

inevitably, importantly, surely; see necessarily.

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Another word for necessity

noun

That which provides a reason or justification:
call, cause, ground (often used in plural), justification, occasion, reason, wherefore, why. Idiom: why and wherefore. See start
Something indispensable:
condition, essential, must, need, precondition, prerequisite, requirement, requisite, sine qua non. See necessary
A condition in which something necessary or desirable is required or wanted:
exigence, exigency, need. See necessary

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Now, I'm sure you see the necessity of doing exactly what I say.
To her, a telephone was a necessity, not a convenience.
The necessity of laws and penalties had to be explained to her.
She seemed to promise to explain that necessity to him when he came on Tuesday.
He must not sit in a mosque, except under necessity, but in some open, accessible place.

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