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necessity
noun /nɪˈsɛsəti/
a) The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. -

b) The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
Ant: contingency, possibility, luxury
See Also: necessary, necessariness, necessitate, necessitation, necessitousness, necessitude

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