The state or condition of lacking or requiring some necessary thing.

The state or quality of being in need; the fact of needing something; necessity.

Necessity.

The fact, quality, or condition of being necessary; indispensability, necessity.

The fact of being requisite; necessity, need.

The fact of being indispensable; the indispensability of some act or thing.

Essentiality, importance. Cf. Old French de grant essence (Godefroy).

The quality or fact of being essential.

The quality or fact of being essential.

The action or fact of making necessary or subjecting to necessity; the result of this.

Necessity. Obsolete. rare.

An essential or necessary reason; a necessity.

Incapability of being dispensed with or done without. (See indispensable, adj. 3.)

The quality of being indispensable. inability to be done without; absolute necessity.

Need, the existence of needs.

the fact or quality of being required; necessity, obligatoriness.