Necessity

Synonyms for necessity
noun need, essentiality

requirement
precondition
prerequisite
fundamental
obligation
essential
urgency
claim
privation
essence

inexorableness
demand
want
call
imperative
compulsion
cause
exaction
duress
exigency

requisite
godsend
must
stress
necessary
pinch
sine qua non
desideratum
indispensability
vitals

inevitability
life or death
needfulness
no alternative
no choice
undeniability
vital part

Antonyms for necessity

extra
auxiliary

trivia
desire

Concept Thesaurus for word necessity
1. Acts of Volition
Synonyms – noun

involuntariness
innate proclivity
predetermination.
compulsion
dire necessity
adverse necessity
destination
doom
preordination
fatalism
stars
sky
book of fate
Ides of March
dernier ressort
necessitarian

instinct
native tendency
necessity
subjection
imperious necessity
fate
fatality
foredoom
foreordination
inevitableness
planet
Fates
God’s will
Hobson’s choice.
pis aller (stubstitute)
fatalist

blind impulse
natural tendency
necessitation
stern necessity
inexorable necessity
what must be.
fate
election
lot
spell
planets
Parcae
will of Heaven
last shift
necessaries (requirement)
automaton.

inborn proclivity
natural impulse
obligation
hard necessity
iron necessity
destiny
kismet
predestination
fortune
star
astral influence
Sisters three
wheel of Fortune
last resort
necessarian

Synonyms – verbs

lie under a necessity
be destined for
be one’s fate to
destine
predestine
compel

be fated
under the necessity of
be pushed to the wall
doom
preordain

be doomed
have no choice
be driven into a corner
foredoom
cast a spell

be destined
have no alternative
be unable to help.
devote
necessitate

Synonyms – adjectives

necessary, needful (requisite)
spellbound.
unavoidable
avoidless
automatic
unwitting

fated
compulsory (compel)
irresistible
resistless.
blind
unthinking

destined
uncontrollable
irrevocable
involuntary
mechanical
unintentional (undesigned)

elect
inevitable
inexorable
instinctive
unconscious
impulsive

Synonyms – phrases
it cannot be helped; there is no help for, there is no helping it; it will be, it must be, it needs to be, it must be so, it will have its way; the die is cast; jacta est alea; che sara sara; “it is written”; one’s days are numbered, one’s fate is sealed; Fata obstant; diis aliter gvisum; actum me invito factus, non est meus actus;
Antonyms

will

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