
1) Absence of choice 2) Certainty 3) Condition 4) Demand 5) Desideratum 6) Importance 7) Must 8) Necessitude 9) Need 10) Obligation 11) Poverty 12) Predetermination 13) Requisiteness 14) Urgency
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1) Anything indispensable 2) Blind impulse 3) Criminal defense 4) Demand 5) French word used in English 6) Inborn proclivity 7) Innate proclivity 8) Instinct 9) Invention s mother 10) Involuntariness 11) Native tendency 12) Natural impulse 13) Natural tendency 14) Need 15) Predetermination 16) Something which you need
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- the condition of being essential or indispensable
- anything indispensable
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In U.S. criminal law, necessity may be either a possible justification or an exculpation for breaking the law. Defendants seeking to rely on this defense argue that they should not be held liable for their actions as a crime because their conduct was necessary to prevent some greater harm and when that conduct is not excused under some other more ...
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[tort] In tort common law, the defense of necessity gives the State or an individual a privilege to take or use the property of another. A defendant typically invokes the defense of necessity only against the intentional torts of trespass to chattels, trespass to land, or conversion. The Latin phrase from common law is necessitas inducit pr...
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• (n.) The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness. • (n.) That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality. • (n.) The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all...
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(from the article `applied logic`) ...is wholly analogous to the already well-developed field of alethic modal logic, which deals with statements of the form `It is possible that . . ... A proposition is said to be necessary if it holds (is true) in all logically possible circumstances or conditions. `All husbands are married&...
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(from the article `criminal law`) The use of force may also be excused if the defendant reasonably believed himself to be acting under necessity. The doctrine of necessity in ...
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In economics, good or service whose consumption is seen as essential in order to maintain a minimum standard of living in a society; for example, food and shelter. ...
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a need; something which cannot be avoided
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Origin: OE. Necessite, F. Necessite, L. Necessitas, fr. Necesse. See Necessary. ... 1. The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness. ... 2. The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want. 'Urge the necessity and state of times.' (Shak) 'The extreme pove...
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(nә-ses´ĭ-te) something necessary or indispensable. pharmaceutic necessity , pharmaceutical necessity a substance having slight or no value therapeutically, but used in the preparation of various pharmaceuticals, including preservatives, solvents, oint...
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Ne·ces'si·ty noun ;
plural Necessities . [ Middle English
necessite , French
nécessité , Latin
necessitas , from
necesse . See
Necessary .]
1. The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; i...
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In general, whatever makes the contrary of a thing impossible, whatever may be the cause of such impossibilities. Whatever is done through necessity, is done without any intention, and as the act is done without will, and is compulsory, the agent is not legally responsible. Hence the maxim, necessity has no law; indeed necessity is itself a law w.....
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In economics, a necessity is a good or service whose consumption is seen as essential in order to maintain a minimum standard of living in a society; for example, food and shelter.
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[
n] - the condition of being essential or indispensable 2. [n] - anything indispensable
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essential noun anything indispensable; `food and shelter are necessities of life`; `the essentials of the good life`; `allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions`; `a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be ob...
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A state of affairs is said to be necessary if it cannot be otherwise than it is. Inasmuch as the grounds of an assertion of this kind may in general be one of three very distinct kinds, it is customary and valuable to distinguish the three types of necessity affirmed as logical or mathematical necessity, physical necessity, and moral necessity. T.....
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something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life. · the fact of being necessary or indispensable; indispensability: the necessity of adequate housing. · an imperative requirement or need for something: the necessity for a quick decision. · the state or fact of being necessary or inevitable: to face t...
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[SAT terms] anything indispensable
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