necessity
What's absolutely needed
Necessity is something required or indispensable—what must be done or had: Food and shelter are necessities.
The abstract sense refers to the condition of being unavoidable or essential: We acted out of necessity.
Necessity is the mother of invention suggests that pressing needs drive creative solutions.
A necessity differs from a luxury in being non-optional.
Utterly required, irreplaceable
- vitalEssential or sustaining existence
- crucialOf supreme importance
- fundamentalForming the base
- requisiteSomething absolutely needed
prerequisite · integral · imperative · essential · foundational · core · basic · primary
State or stipulation
- stipulationCondition in an agreement
- prerequisiteRequired prior condition
- criterionStandard for judgment
- qualificationRequired skill or condition
precondition · specification · mandate · provision · demand · standard · threshold · minimum
Consumable nourishment source
- waterClear essential liquid
- shelterProtected place or structure
- warmthHeat you feel
- clothingBody coverings worn daily
air · fire · sustenance · subsistence · provisions · staples · hydration · protection
Strong inner drive
- driveOperate a vehicle
- impulseSudden urge to act
- pressureForce upon contact
- forceStrength or compulsion
coercion · duress · constraint · obligation · compulsory · mandatory · involuntary · unavoidable
Coercion through threats
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- self-defenseProtecting oneself from harm
- justificationReason proving rightness
- compulsionIrresistible urge to act
imminent threat · reasonable force · last resort · no alternative · lesser evil · proportionality · exculpation
Doctrine of causal necessity
- causationProduction of effects
- contingencyUncertain possible event
- possibilityState of being achievable
- essenceFundamental nature of something
teleology · fatalism · inevitability · modal · a priori · sufficient reason · natural law · Aristotle
Creating something original
- improvisationSpontaneous, unplanned creation
- ingenuityClever, original thinking
- resourcefulnessAbility to solve problems creatively
- workaroundMakeshift bypass of difficulty
makeshift · adaptation · problem-solving · creativity · breakthrough · solution
indispensable
Utterly required, irreplaceable
- vitalEssential or sustaining existence
- crucialOf supreme importance
- fundamentalForming the base
requisite · prerequisite · integral · imperative · essential · foundational · core · basic · primary · critical
condition
State or stipulation
- stipulationCondition in an agreement
- prerequisiteRequired prior condition
- criterionStandard for judgment
qualification · precondition · specification · mandate · provision · demand · standard · threshold · minimum · expectation
food
Consumable nourishment source
clothing · air · fire · sustenance · subsistence · provisions · staples · hydration · protection · refuge
urge
Strong inner drive
force · coercion · duress · constraint · obligation · compulsory · mandatory · involuntary · unavoidable · inescapable
duress
Coercion through threats
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- self-defenseProtecting oneself from harm
- justificationReason proving rightness
compulsion · imminent threat · reasonable force · last resort · no alternative · lesser evil · proportionality · exculpation
determinism
Doctrine of causal necessity
- causationProduction of effects
- contingencyUncertain possible event
- possibilityState of being achievable
essence · teleology · fatalism · inevitability · modal · a priori · sufficient reason · natural law · Aristotle · Spinoza
innovation
Creating something original
- improvisationSpontaneous, unplanned creation
- ingenuityClever, original thinking
- resourcefulnessAbility to solve problems creatively
workaround · makeshift · adaptation · problem-solving · creativity · breakthrough · solution
- importanceimportance, significance, consequence, weight, gravity
- philosophy termstruth, reason, knowledge, wisdom, logic
- abstractionsidea, concept, abstraction, thought, meaning
- existenceexistence, being, lives, reality, life
- dutiesduty, task, obligation, moral obligation, responsibility
- motivationsambition, drive, desire, goal, goals
necessityluxury
Expensive nonessential comfort
extravagance · indulgence · frill · nonessential · superfluity
necessityimpossibility
State of being unachievable
contingency · possibility · chance · uncertainty · optionality
- bare necessitiesMinimum requirements for living
- made a virtue of necessityTreated unavoidable as desirable
- daily necessitiesGoods required each day
- bare necessity
- medical necessityTreatment a condition requires
- economic necessityRequired for monetary reasons
necessities, necessitate, necessitated, necessitating, necessitates, necessitous