English-Spanish translations for necessity

• necesidad
  ¿No vamos a apoyar lo que es una necesidad? Why would we not support necessity?
  El pacto de estabilidad es una necesidad. The stability pact is a necessity.
  El Sistema Europeo de Patentes es una necesidad. A European patent system is a necessity.
• menester

Definition of necessity

• The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
• The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack
• Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power
• The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
• Indispensable requirements (of life

Examples

• I bought a new table out of necessity. My old one was ruined
• A tent is a necessity if you plan on camping
• doctrine of necessity

Related words

• necessity is the mother of invention
• necessity knows no law
• necessity money
• make a virtue of necessity
• military necessity
• by necessity