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necessariness

noun

Etymology

From necessary + -ness.

  1. derived from necessārius
  2. derived from necessaire
  3. inherited from necessarye
  4. suffixed as necessariness — “necessary + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or characteristic of being necessary.

    • Time and space are themselves part of the phenomena or object. . . . It is the necessariness of these perceptions which has led to their being elevated to the position of abstract wholes in which all things exist.
    • The test was so general that defendant flooded the court's docket with appeals seeking judicial examination of the necessariness of prearraignment detentions.
    • A journey, one would think, ought to have a certain necessariness; there must be a reason for going.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA