necessity

1. (countable, uncountable)The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.

   I bought a new table out of necessity. My old one was ruined.

   The report I wrote was of necessity rushed and full of errors.

   Notwendigkeit, Nezessität, Not

   необходи́мостьneobxodímostʹ, нужда́nuždá, потре́бностьpotrébnostʹ

   необхі́дністьneobxídnistʹ, нужда́nuždá, потре́баpotréba

2. (countable, uncountable)The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.

   Bedürftigkeit

   нужда́nuždá

3. (countable, uncountable)Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.

   A tent is a necessity if you plan on camping.

   Notwendigkeit

   предме́т пе́рвой необходи́мостиpredmét pérvoj neobxodímosti

   anything indispensable

4. (countable, uncountable)Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.

   After eating a full meal, the human body's necessity for food will compel the person to eat again in the future.

5. (countable, uncountable)The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.

6. (countable, uncountable)Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.

   doctrine of necessity

7. (countable, in the plural, uncountable)Indispensable requirements (of life).

   the condition of being essential or indispensable

1. A computer is an absolute necessity now.

   Нині комп'ютер є абсолютною необхідністю.

   ruКомпьютер сейчас — абсолютная необходимость.

   deComputer sind heutzutage eine absolute Notwendigkeit.

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2. We understand the necessity of studying.

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3. Food and clothes are necessities of life.

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4. Art isn't a luxury, but a necessity.

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5. We need to meet the bare necessities.

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