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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   necessity

   • IPA[nəˈsesədē]

   美式

   • n.
     the fact of being required or indispensable；unavoidability

   • noun: necessity, plural noun: necessities

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. the fact of being required or indispensable the necessity of providing parental guidance should be apparent the overriding theme is the necessity for choice 同義詞 essential requirement, prerequisite, indispensable thing/item, essential, requisite, ... 更多necessary, fundamental, basic, sine qua non, desideratum
   • ▪ unavoidability the necessity of growing old 同義詞 inevitability, unavoidability, certainty, inescapability, inexorability, ... 更多ineluctability
   • ▪ a state of things or circumstances enforcing a certain course created more by necessity than design 同義詞 force/pressure of circumstance, need, obligation, call, exigency, ... 更多crisis, emergency, urgency, force majeure
   • 2. an indispensable thing a good book is a necessity when traveling 同義詞 essential requirement, prerequisite, indispensable thing/item, essential, requisite, ... 更多necessary, fundamental, basic, sine qua non, desideratum
   • 3. the principle according to which something must be so, by virtue either of logic or of natural law.
   • ▪ a condition that cannot be otherwise, or a statement asserting this.

   片語

   • necessity is the mother of invention
   • of necessity