necessity
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 需要，必需品，必然
演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 继承自 ←中古英语 necessite
- 源自 ←古法语 necessite
- 源自 ←拉丁语 necessitās “unavoidableness, compulsion, exigency, necessity”
词源说明
From Middle English necessite, from Old French necessite, from Latin necessitās (“unavoidableness, compulsion, exigency, necessity”), from necesse (“unavoidable, inevitable”); see necessary. Doublet of Necessitas.
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
- The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
- Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
- 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.
- (law) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
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