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necessitousness

noun

Etymology

From necessitous + -ness.

  1. borrowed from nécessiteux
  2. formed as necessitousness — “necessitous + -ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or condition of impoverishment

    The state or condition of impoverishment; material need, especially of an urgent nature.

    • If necessitousness implies a pressing need for the money and a lack of ability to bargain over rates, then it would seem the modern consumer is not in a very different position from his pre-war cousin.

  2. The state or condition of being necessary or essential

    The state or condition of being necessary or essential; necessity.

    • Some of the forces incline the land toward agricultural use, others incline it toward residential use. . . . There is no economic necessitousness that would dictate one or the other use.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for necessitousness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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