<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>plural: necessities</li><li>something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life</li><li>the fact of being necessary or indispensable; indispensability: the necessity of adequate housing</li><li>an imperative requirement or need for something: the necessity for a quick decision</li><li>the state or fact of being necessary or inevitable: to face the necessity of testifying in court</li><li>an unavoidable need or compulsion to do something: not by choice but by necessity</li><li>a state of being in financial need; poverty: a family in dire necessity</li><li>the quality of following inevitably from logical, physical, or moral laws</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms</strong></p><ul><li>demand</li><li>want</li><li>indigence</li><li>neediness</li></ul>