All necessity synonyms

noun necessity

• need — a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.
• requirement — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
• precondition — something that must come before or is necessary to a subsequent result; condition: a precondition for a promotion.
• prerequisite — required beforehand: a prerequisite fund of knowledge.
• fundamental — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
• obligation — something by which a person is bound or obliged to do certain things, and which arises out of a sense of duty or results from custom, law, etc.
• urgency — urgent character; imperativeness; insistence; importunateness.
• claim — If you say that someone claims that something is true, you mean they say that it is true but you are not sure whether or not they are telling the truth.
• privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
• inexorableness — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
• demand — If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
• want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
• call — a demand for redeemable bonds or shares to be presented for repayment
• imperative — imperative language
• compulsion — A compulsion is a strong desire to do something, which you find difficult to control.
• cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
• duress — compulsion by threat or force; coercion; constraint.
• requisite — required or necessary for a particular purpose, position, etc.; indispensable: the requisite skills of an engineer.
• godsend — an unexpected thing or event that is particularly welcome and timely, as if sent by God.
• must — to be obliged; be compelled: Do I have to go? I must, I suppose.
• stress — importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth.
• necessary — being essential, indispensable, or requisite: a necessary part of the motor.
• pinch — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
• desideratum — something lacked and wanted
• indispensability — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
• vitals — the bodily organs, such as the brain, liver, heart, lungs, etc, that are necessary to maintain life
• inevitability — unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary: an inevitable conclusion.
• sine qua non — an indispensable condition; requisite.
• needful — necessary or required: needful supplies.
• essential — Absolutely necessary; extremely important.
• basic — You use basic to describe things, activities, and principles that are very important or necessary, and on which others depend.
• essentiality — The condition of being essential; a basic set of essential traits; being.
• essence — The intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, esp. something abstract, that determines its character.
• exaction — The action of demanding and obtaining something from someone, especially a payment or service.
• exigency — An urgent need or demand.
• stipulation — a condition, demand, or promise in an agreement or contract.