necessity

noun

1 health should not be considered a privilege or even a luxury, but as a necessity and a right:

essential requirement, prerequisite, indispensable thing/item, essential, requisite, necessary, fundamental, basic;

Latin sine qua non, desideratum.

2 the necessity of taking expert advice | the necessity for young people to grow up with respect for the law:

indispensability, need, needfulness.

3 political necessity forced him to consider it:

force/pressure of circumstance, need, obligation, call, exigency;

crisis, emergency, urgency;

French force majeure.

4 the necessity of growing old:

inevitability, unavoidability, certainty, inescapability, inexorability, ineluctability.

5 necessity made them steal:

poverty, need, neediness, want, deprivation, privation, penury, destitution, indigence.

□ of necessity

such institutional changes will, of necessity, lead to a review of the Arts Council's role:

necessarily, inevitably, unavoidably, by force of circumstance, inescapably, ineluctably;

by definition, as a matter of course, naturally, automatically, certainly, surely, definitely, incontrovertibly, undoubtedly, axiomatically;

willy-nilly;

Latin nolens volens;

informal like it or not;

formal perforce.