amerikai:
brit:
1. The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
I bought a new table out of necessity. My old one was ruined.
2. The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack
3. Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
A tent is a necessity if you plan on camping.
4. Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power
5. The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
6. Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
doctrine of necessity
7. (in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).