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单词 necessity
释义 necessity
 /neuh ses"i tee/,  n.  ,  pl.   necessities.
  1. something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
  2. the fact of being necessary or indispensable; indispensability: the necessity of adequate housing.
  3. an imperative requirement or need for something: the necessity for a quick decision.
  4. the state or fact of being necessary or inevitable: to face the necessity of testifying in court.
  5. an unavoidable need or compulsion to do something: not by choice but by necessity.
  6. a state of being in financial need; poverty: a family in dire necessity.
  7.  Philos.   the quality of following inevitably from logical, physical, or moral laws.
  8. of necessity, as an inevitable result; unavoidably; necessarily: Our trip to China must of necessity be postponed for a while.
 [1325-75; ME necessite < L necessitas, equiv. to necess(e) needful + -itas -ITY]
 Syn. 3. demand. See need. 6. neediness, indigence, want.
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