Index of English words, starting with "ne"

(1) - Necessariness (n.) The quality of being necessary.

(1) - Necessary (n.) Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.
(2) - Necessary (n.) A privy; a water-closet.
(3) - Necessary (n.) A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.
(4) - Necessary (a.) Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; -- opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.
(5) - Necessary (a.) Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential.
(6) - Necessary (a.) Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.

(1) - Necessitarian (n.) One who holds to the doctrine of necessitarianism.
(2) - Necessitarian (a.) Of or pertaining to the doctrine of philosophical necessity in regard to the origin and existence of things, especially as applied to the actings or choices of the will; -- opposed to libertarian.

(1) - Necessitate (v. t.) To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel.
(2) - Necessitate (v. t.) To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.