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necessity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of necessity

1 something necessary, indispensable, or unavoidable

  • on any road trip, accurate maps are a necessity
Synonyms of necessity

condition, demand, essential, must, must-have, necessary, need, needful, requirement, requisite, sine qua non
Words Related to necessity

precondition, prerequisite

advantage, edge, plus

desideration, desideratum, wish
Near Antonyms of necessity

amenity, comfort, extra, extravagance, frill, indulgence, luxury, superfluity, surplus, surplusage
Antonyms of necessity

nonessential, nonnecessity

2 the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessions

  • two years of unemployment had reduced the family to abject necessity
Synonyms of necessity

beggary, destituteness, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, need, neediness, pauperism, penuriousness, penury, poorness, poverty, want
Words Related to necessity

gutter, misery, woe, wretchedness

exigency

emergency, rainy day

austerity, deprivation, privation

bankruptcy, insolvency

belt-tightening, pinching, straitening
Near Antonyms of necessity

luxury, prosperity
Antonyms of necessity

affluence, opulence, richness, wealth, wealthiness

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