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单词 necessity
释义

necessity

/nɪˈsɛsɪti /
noun (plural necessities)
1 [mass noun] The state or fact of being required: the necessity of providing parental guidance...
  • But the fact that the necessity for dialogue has to be stressed in the more than 50-year-old alliance shows how tense relations are in reality.
  • This year there has been no necessity for farmers to choose between the census or the simplified systems.
  • The necessity to have access to larger markets is absolutely crucial.

Synonyms

indispensability, need, needfulness
1.1The state of being unavoidable: the necessity of growing old...
  • On the level of the abstract theory of capital expansion and exploitation, it is not possible to argue for the inevitable necessity of the North-South divide.
  • At this time thinking was dominated by Kant who had stated that Euclidean geometry is the inevitable necessity of thought.
  • Like theoretical reasoning, practical reasoning seeks in a sense to demonstrate the necessity of certain actions.

Synonyms

inevitability, unavoidability, certainty, inescapability, inexorability, ineluctability
1.2A situation enforcing a certain course of action: political necessity induced him to consider it...
  • Of course, political necessity prevented the president from blurting the awkward truth that the nation is already running near-record deficits.
  • Political ideology is the result of individuals making statements about the world based on theory, and in many cases, political necessity.
  • It is driven by political necessity, and racial opportunism.

Synonyms

force/pressure of circumstance, need, obligation, call, exigency;
crisis, emergency, urgency;
French force majeure
2An indispensable thing: a good book is a necessity when travelling...
  • These patients do not have even basic necessities such as clothes, soap and toothpaste.
  • Health care is not a golf game, it's a human necessity.
  • You drastically cut back on basic necessities such as food or travel to pay creditors.
3 [mass noun] Philosophy The principle according to which something must be so, by virtue either of logic or of natural law.But since the Idea of Causation is a necessary condition of the very possibility of objective empirical knowledge, Newton's laws must share this necessity....
  • Of necessity it must deal with a ruling class that owns the material means of extracting or distributing information, or with a producing class that extracts and distributes.
  • The reaction of some to this whole exercise will be to say that it fortifies a dislike they had always had for natural necessity - even before it was relativised to a time.
3.1 [count noun] A condition that cannot be otherwise, or a statement asserting this.The absolute necessity of the judgment is only a conditioned necessity of the thing, or of the predicate in the judgment....
  • Whence the force of the second ‘not’, which I take to be more than just the assertion of a pragmatic necessity in the teeth of radical scepticism.
  • Artists of this region have always created art out of a necessity that transcends the restrictive conditions imposed upon them.

Phrases

necessity is the mother of invention

of necessity

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French necessite, from Latin necessitas, from necesse 'be needful'.

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