589 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ nəsˈɛsɪti], [ nəsˈɛsɪti], [ n_ə_s_ˈɛ_s_ɪ_t_i]

Similar words for necessity:

• other relevant words (adjective)
• compulsion (noun)
• condition (noun)
• constraint (noun)
• crisis (noun)
• demand (noun)
• desire (noun)
• difficulty (noun)
• emergency (noun)
• exigency/exigence (noun)
• hopelessness (noun)
• inability (noun)
• incapability (noun)
• inevitably (noun)
• lack (noun)
• necessary (noun)
• need, essentiality (noun)
• obligation (noun)
• occasion (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• pinch (noun)
• poverty (noun)
• precondition (noun)
• pressure (noun)
• privation (noun)
• requirement (noun)
• state (noun)
• use (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• reliance
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "necessity" in context?

Paraphrases for necessity

Homophones for necessity

Hyponyms for necessity

Antonyms for necessity

Hypernyms for necessity

Synonyms for Necessity:

• adj.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • state,
  • essential,
  • future.

• n.

  •
  • essentiality,
  • the elephant in the room,
  • a tall order,
  • the impossible,
  • burden.
  •
  • desideratum,
  • essence,
  • concern,
  • staple,
  • claim,
  • element,
  • burning issue/question,
  • key,
  • basis,
  • fundamental,
  • exaction,
  • priority,
  • feature,
  • core.
  •
  • destitution,
  • stress,
  • inexorableness,
  • pinch.
  •
  • ground,
  • start,
  • justification,
  • reason.
  • compulsion (noun)
  • hang up,
  • have on the brain,
  • hangup,
  • tiger by the tail,
  • obsession.
  • condition (noun)
  • terms,
  • pre-requisite,
  • prerequisites,
  • pre-requisites,
  • sine qua non.
  • constraint (noun)
  • no no,
  • a musts,
  • no nos,
  • impellings,
  • nonos,
  • no no's,
  • nono,
  • nono's.
  • crisis (noun)
  • quandary,
  • big trouble,
  • hot potato,
  • predicaments,
  • height,
  • Cross-road,
  • cross-roads,
  • predicament,
  • hour of decision.
  • demand (noun)
  • entreatments,
  • ex actions,
  • counter claims,
  • inter-rogation,
  • counter claim,
  • ex action,
  • inter-rogations,
  • inter rogation,
  • call fors,
  • impetrations,
  • ex-action,
  • inter rogations,
  • ex-actions,
  • counter-claims.
  • desire (noun)
  • want.
  • difficulty (noun)
  • exigency.
  • emergency (noun)
  • dis-tress,
  • dis tress,
  • mis adventure,
  • dis tresses,
  • mis-adventures,
  • dis-tresses,
  • mis adventures,
  • mis-adventure.
  • exigency/exigence (noun)
  • demandingnesses,
  • needfulnesses,
  • imperativenesses,
  • pressingnesses,
  • criticalnesses.
  • hopelessness (noun)
  • desperation.
  • inability (noun)
  • in efficacy,
  • in-competence,
  • in-efficacy,
  • in-capacities,
  • in adequacies,
  • in-effectivenesses,
  • in capacity,
  • in effectivenesses,
  • in sufficiencies,
  • in-effectiveness,
  • in efficiencies,
  • in effectualness,
  • in efficiency,
  • in-capacitations,
  • in-capacity,
  • in-adequacies,
  • in competence,
  • un fitnesses,
  • in-competences,
  • in sufficiency,
  • in capacitations,
  • in utilities,
  • in-effectualness,
  • ineptnesses,
  • incapacitations,
  • in aptitude,
  • in-efficiency,
  • dis qualification,
  • in capacitation,
  • in-utility,
  • un fitness,
  • in-utilities,
  • in-effectualnesses,
  • inaptitudes,
  • in adequacy,
  • in-adequacy,
  • in-aptitudes,
  • in capacities,
  • dis qualifications,
  • un-fitness,
  • in efficacies,
  • in-sufficiency,
  • in-efficacies,
  • in-capacitation,
  • in-sufficiencies,
  • un-fitnesses,
  • in competences,
  • in effectualnesses,
  • dis-qualification,
  • in-aptitude,
  • in utility,
  • in effectiveness,
  • dis-qualifications,
  • in aptitudes,
  • in-efficiencies.
  • incapability (noun)
  • in capability,
  • in capabilities,
  • in-capabilities,
  • in-capability.
  • inevitably (noun)
  • surely,
  • importantly,
  • necessarily.
  • lack (noun)
  • shortfall,
  • slightness,
  • retrenchment,
  • shortness,
  • exiguity,
  • shrinking,
  • retrenchments,
  • scantiness,
  • Insufficience.
  • necessary (noun)
  • necessary.
  • need, essentiality (noun)
  • inevitability,
  • obligation,
  • imperative,
  • no choice,
  • godsend,
  • must,
  • undeniability,
  • life or death,
  • duress,
  • vital part,
  • prerequisite,
  • no alternative,
  • vitals,
  • indispensability.
  • obligation (noun)
  • inexorability,
  • mandate.
  • occasion (noun)
  • pro-vocations,
  • pro vocation,
  • pro vocations.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • inability,
  • inefficacy,
  • lack,
  • no-no's,
  • no-nos,
  • meltdowns,
  • incapability,
  • mileage,
  • a must,
  • searches,
  • importunity,
  • criticalities,
  • poverty,
  • Entreatment,
  • mobilization,
  • crisis,
  • compulsion,
  • instancy,
  • occasions,
  • instancies,
  • impulsion,
  • requirement,
  • demandingness,
  • violence,
  • full court press,
  • inutilities,
  • pressure,
  • powerlessness,
  • mobilizations,
  • Prayers,
  • meltdown,
  • inefficiencies,
  • need,
  • vicissitude,
  • wonts,
  • urgency,
  • counterclaims,
  • occasion,
  • inaptitude,
  • Exigencies,
  • incompetency,
  • solicitation,
  • counter-claim,
  • Importunities,
  • impulsions,
  • usabilities,
  • requisite,
  • constraint,
  • criticality,
  • search,
  • use,
  • requirements,
  • demand,
  • needs,
  • imperativeness,
  • ineptness,
  • determinants,
  • promptings,
  • usability,
  • pressingness,
  • solicitations,
  • Impetration,
  • no-no,
  • inutility,
  • needfulness,
  • Exigence,
  • counterclaim,
  • emergency,
  • call,
  • privation,
  • determinant,
  • serviceability,
  • Incapacitation,
  • condition,
  • criticalness.
  • pinch (noun)
  • tight spot,
  • tight squeeze.
  • poverty (noun)
  • pennilessness,
  • vacancy,
  • underdevelopment,
  • under-development,
  • abjection.
  • precondition (noun)
  • pre-conditions.
  • pressure (noun)
  • mis fortunes,
  • full court presses,
  • un naturalness,
  • mis fortune,
  • un-naturalnesses,
  • mis-fortunes,
  • un naturalnesses,
  • un-naturalness.
  • privation (noun)
  • dis advantage,
  • dis-advantages,
  • dis advantages,
  • dis-advantage.
  • requirement (noun)
  • proviso,
  • stipulation.
  • state (noun)
  • necessity.
  • use (noun)
  • pro fits,
  • exercisings,
  • serviceabilities,
  • wear tear,
  • pro fit,
  • pro-fits.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • cause,
  • fate.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • pig,
  • dependence,
  • incidentals,
  • why,
  • terror,
  • mare,
  • poisoned chalice,
  • conundrum,
  • headache,
  • precondition,
  • Pandora's Box,
  • chore,
  • task,
  • struggle,
  • disease,
  • ogre,
  • scourge,
  • piece of work,
  • stinker,
  • puzzler,
  • monster,
  • web,
  • bane.
  •
  • malady,
  • torment,
  • performance,
  • affliction,
  • wherefore,
  • catastrophe,
  • miasma.
  •
  • push.
  •
  • business.
  • reliance
  • interdependence.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • compel,
  • compulsiveness,
  • certainly,
  • Indefeasibility,
  • explore,
  • extreme,
  • undoubtedly,
  • basically,
  • Desideration,
  • significant,
  • apply,
  • cup,
  • insufficient,
  • poor,
  • extremity,
  • urgent,
  • certainty,
  • want to,
  • mandatorily,
  • crux,
  • definitely,
  • positiveness,
  • enforcement,
  • apparently,
  • fatalism,
  • inadequate,
  • employ,
  • undersupply,
  • impoverishment,
  • premeditation,
  • low,
  • reliability,
  • Vis Major,
  • inure,
  • ascertain,
  • wish,
  • Obligement,
  • equality,
  • Irrevocability,
  • inevasibleness,
  • Determinacy,
  • predestination,
  • moral certainty,
  • coercion,
  • shortage,
  • helplessness,
  • call for,
  • pauperization,
  • relentlessness,
  • karma,
  • require,
  • Indispensably,
  • ask,
  • patently,
  • important,
  • hand-to-mouth existence,
  • mechanically,
  • mendicancy,
  • absolute,
  • certain,
  • treat,
  • entirely,
  • appointed lot,
  • you bet,
  • law,
  • Necessariness,
  • insistence,
  • try,
  • investigate,
  • assurance,
  • absoluteness,
  • inflexibility,
  • must-have,
  • foundation,
  • HIT,
  • unambiguity,
  • linchpin,
  • assuredness,
  • examine,
  • employment,
  • impecuniousness,
  • unquestionableness,
  • indispensableness,
  • needful,
  • pitiful,
  • beggary,
  • implicit,
  • application,
  • inspect,
  • in case,
  • inevitable,
  • provision,
  • fancy,
  • essentials,
  • inexorably,
  • indubitably,
  • coaction,
  • hunger,
  • project,
  • unequivocalness,
  • scarcity,
  • Unavoidableness,
  • inerrancy,
  • Necessities,
  • requisiteness,
  • indispensable,
  • force majeure,
  • misery,
  • bare necessities,
  • of course,
  • incontrovertibly,
  • bare subsistence,
  • unqualifiedly,
  • famine,
  • determinateness,
  • yearning,
  • consequent,
  • principle,
  • importance,
  • piteous,
  • sure,
  • etc,
  • Parti Pris,
  • unavoidably,
  • Random Selection,
  • basic,
  • hankering,
  • Neediness,
  • deprivation,
  • craving,
  • decree,
  • yen,
  • act of god,
  • uncontrollability,
  • Beggarliness,
  • bare cupboard,
  • involve,
  • dispensation,
  • adjust,
  • inquire,
  • necessitate,
  • supply,
  • penuriousness,
  • absolute certainty,
  • clearly,
  • why and wherefore,
  • fatality,
  • Predeliberation,
  • predetermination,
  • inevitableness,
  • entail,
  • luck,
  • meagerness,
  • prescience,
  • Difficulties,
  • infallibilism,
  • perfectly,
  • preordination,
  • Fatefulness,
  • distress,
  • requisition,
  • surety,
  • keystone,
  • definiteness,
  • penury,
  • ineluctability,
  • univocity,
  • straits,
  • naturally,
  • actual,
  • deplorable,
  • infallibility,
  • miserable,
  • pauperism,
  • decisively,
  • Propendency,
  • correctly,
  • inevitably,
  • absolutely,
  • appropriately,
  • resolve,
  • without doubt,
  • fait accompli,
  • truth,
  • difficulty,
  • portion,
  • totally,
  • Necessitousness,
  • restraint,
  • Inerrability,
  • sureness,
  • bad,
  • purely,
  • manifestly,
  • kismet,
  • check,
  • positively,
  • automatically,
  • completely,
  • destiny,
  • no doubt,
  • Impecuniosity,
  • certitude,
  • Necessaries,
  • destitute,
  • Necessitude,
  • evil,
  • necessitation,
  • evidently,
  • inevitable accident,
  • unavoidability,
  • homelessness,
  • unyieldingness,
  • rightly,
  • Indubitableness,
  • crave,
  • lot,
  • inescapableness,
  • fully,
  • foreordination,
  • poorness,
  • intention,
  • inescapably,
  • habituate,
  • verily,
  • strait,
  • irresistibility,
  • utterly,
  • Infallibleness,
  • dead certainty,
  • ought to,
  • Forcing,
  • harden,
  • absence,
  • qualification,
  • consequentially,
  • foredoom,
  • consider,
  • axiomatically,
  • unavoidable casualty,
  • hardship,
  • Destituteness,
  • vital,
  • indigence,
  • seriousness,
  • subjection,
  • foreknowledge,
  • obviously,
  • definite,
  • Certainness,
  • gripe,
  • critical,
  • unconditionally,
  • dire,
  • fortune,
  • would like,
  • longing,
  • manner,
  • resolutely,
  • unquestionably,
  • cornerstone,
  • any,
  • foregone conclusion,
  • appetite,
  • accustom,
  • custom,
  • thirst,
  • assuredly,
  • postulate,
  • misfortune,
  • decidedly,
  • quite.

How to use "Necessity" in context?

Paraphrases for Necessity:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    demand.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    necessary.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    appropriateness, desirability, indispensable, necessary, obligation, precondition, prerequisite, requisite, Advisability, Criteria, dictates.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    need, needs, requirement, requirements.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    imperative, indispensability, inevitability, need, needs, requirement, significance, urgency.

Homophones for Necessity:

• nicety, naughty, nast, nonaged, naught, nauseated, naked eye, nonionised, nictate, no-good, naked, nonunionized, night, nonionized, necessitate, nakedwood, nose out, Nejd, Najd, nonunionised, nonskid, nicad, negociate, Newgate, ningishzida, nsaid, Naha City, necked, nouakchott, Neem Seed, nine-sided, nanny-goat, nosed, nought, nonsweet, negate, newscast, nasty, nest, next, newssheet, nugget, nightie, NIST, nictitate, nighted, noctua, nauseate, necktie, nougat, noctuid, noctuidae, negotiate, nighest.

Hyponym for Necessity:

• n.

  • state
    demand, need.