necessity
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the condition of being essential or indispensable
Types & categories
- need hypernym
- requisiteness hyponym
- urgency hyponym
Related & opposite
- necessary attribute
- unnecessary attribute
- need derivation
- necessary derivation
Sense 2 noun
anything indispensable
food and shelter are necessities of life
Types & categories
- thing hypernym
- desideratum hyponym
- must hyponym
- need hyponym
Related & opposite
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attribute | Related & opposite | necessary |
| 1 | attribute | Related & opposite | unnecessary |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | need |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | necessary |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | need |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | requisiteness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | urgency |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | inessential |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | need |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | need |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | necessary |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | essential |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | requisite |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | needy |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | thing |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | desideratum |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | must |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | need |