Other Words for Necessity

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Necessity as a Adjective has these synonyms:

indispensability, unavoidability, needfulness, inexorability
Example: The necessity for exercise is often met by private health clubs.

requirement, essential, necessary, requisite, need, prerequisite, basic, fundamental, sine qua non, desideratum, constraint
Example: I was marooned for a year with only the bare necessities of life. We regard honesty as a necessity in a bank manager.

Necessity as a Noun has these synonyms:

poverty, want, indigence, need, destitution, penury, straits, difficulty, difficulties, pauperism, neediness
Example: The extreme necessity of the unemployed demands that the government act quickly.

urgency, emergency, crisis, misfortune, exigency, pinch, extreme, matter of life and death
Example: She has made a virtue of necessity. Electric power is no longer a matter of choice but of necessity.

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