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Definition: Necessity |
NecessityNoun1. The condition of being essential or indispensable. 2. Anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "necessity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Necessity \Ne*ces"si*ty\, noun; plural Necessities. [Old English necessite, French n['e]cessit['e], Latin necessitas, from necesse. See Necessary.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Necessity Make a virtue of necessity. (Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona, iv. 1.) "Quintilian has laudem virtutis necessitati damus: St. Jerome (epistle 54 section 6), Fac de necessitate virtutem. In the Roman de la Rose, line 14058, we find S'il ne fait de necessite virtu, and Boccaccio has Si come savia fatta della necessita. Necessity the tyrant's plea. (Milton: Paradise Lost, book iv. verse 393.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Necessity (as a term of jurisprudence) is a possible justification for breaking the law. Defendants who use this defense are arguing that they should not be held liable for a crime, since the actionss taken were, for some reason or other, "necessary". In an early trial, for which this defense was used, Crown v. Dudly & Stephens (late-1800s), two shipwrecked sailors decided to eat a cabin boy. The court ruled that cannibalizing the indidivual was not necessary; the sailors were found guilty of murder. Other courts have ruled, in cases where the eaten individual had died of "natural causes" and starvation was an issue, that cannibalism was acceptable.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Necessity."
Synonyms: NecessitySynonyms: essential (n), necessary (n), requirement (n), requisite (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: inessential (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence of Choice | Noun: no choice, Hobson's choice; first come first served, random selection; necessity; not a pin to choose; (equality); any, the first that comes; that or nothing. |
Certainty | Noun: certainty; necessity; surety, assurance; dead certainty, moral certainty; infallibleness; Adjective: infallibility, reliability; indubitableness, inevitableness, unquestionableness. |
Compulsion | Restraint; necessity; force majeure; Hobson's choice. |
Poverty | Noun: poverty, indigence, penury, pauperism, want; need, neediness; lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties, wolf at the door. |
Predetermination | Noun: predestination, preordination, premeditation, predeliberation, predetermination; foregone conclusion, fait accompli; parti pris; resolve, propendency; intention; project; fate, foredoom, necessity. |
Requirement | Needfulness, essentiality, necessity, indispensability, urgency. |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Blood, I was to find, was a necessity as well (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Don't you think one of the charms of marriage is that it makes deception a necessity for both parties (Eyes Wide Shut; writing credit: Arthur Schnitzler; Stanley Kubrick) Coffee's not food, it's a necessity! (The Lost World; writing credit: Alison Lea Bingeman) College is a necessity in life not only to excel in learning, but to survive (Six Feet Under; writing credit: David Starkey) You concede the necessity of goin' to school, we'll keep right on readin' the same every night, just as we always have (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote) | |
Clever | A luxury once enjoyed becomes a necessity. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Act of Necessity (1991) Necessity (1988) | |
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 | Fort Necessity National Battlefield. Credit: NPS. |  | [Respiration: Air pump used by R. Boyle in experiments demonstrating necessity of air to life and combustion] / J. Mynde sc. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Necessity is the mother of substitution. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Shenandoah Valley. Paul Fletcher's tiny factory in Harrisburg, which turns out fifteen bottle washing machines a year, selling at $3500 apiece. This was an invention of Mr. Fletcher's under the spur of necessity. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Corn crib on J.E. Herbrandson farm. One hundred sixty acres, owner-operated, near Estherville, Iowa. The necessity of making payments on a heavy mortgage has caused their buildings to be in bad repair. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Fort Necessity. General view of Fort Necessity site. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Necessity, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Child care : an economic necessity : International Year of the Child, 1979. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | Necessity never made a good bargain. |
Friedrich Nietzsche | The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue. |
Oliver Cromwell | Necessity has no law. |
Publilius Syrus | Necessity knows no law except to conquer. |
Quintilian | We give to necessity the praise of virtue. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Necessity does everything well. |
Sallust | Necessity makes even the timid brave. |
The Seven Sages | Not even the gods fight against necessity. |
William Shakespeare | Nature must obey necessity. [Julius Caesar] |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Nor let any one think, this lays a perpetual foundation for disorder; for this operates not, till the inconveniency is so great, that the majority feel it, and are weary of it, and find a necessity to have it amended. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | Those who apply the rule to particular cases, must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. (reference) |
The Emancipation Proclamation | 1862 | And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God. (Abraham Lincoln) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | And she had a confused glimpse of the possible necessity of a separation still more painful than the first |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He was wholly at a loss to know what could be the use or necessity of practicing those vices |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I have actually fished from the same kind of necessity that the first fishers did. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The panel encourages continued awareness of the necessity for early identification of hearing impairment. (references) | |
The necessity and importance of long-term monitoring, including required laboratory tests, should be understood fully. (references) | ||
Particular emphasis should be placed on necessity of referral to mental health specialists at various points in the treatment continuum. (references) | ||
Business | Cultural barriers and the lack of economic necessity have limited female participation. (references) | |
Many of these attractions may only be visited by car, creating a necessity for fly-drive vacations. (references) | ||
These devices represent a cost that they will incur only through the necessity created by regulations. (references) | ||
Children | Burma | Teachers' salaries are far below subsistence wages and have forced many teachers to quit teaching out of economic necessity; on average, a teacher's pay is equal only to approximately 7 dollars (10,000 Kyats) monthly. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Belarus | The President grants the Russian Orthodox Church special financial advantages that other denominations do not enjoy and has declared the preservation and development of Russian Orthodox Christianity a "moral necessity." On June 24 in a meeting with the Aleksiy II, Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia, Lukashenka said, "Fundamentally, Orthodoxy is the basis of our state." The authorities also encourage a greater role for the Russian Orthodox Church, largely as part of an overall strategy to strengthen "Slavic unity" in the region and promote greater political unification between Belarus and Russia. (references) |
Economic History | Nigeria | Imports are not only attractive but a virtual necessity. (references) |
Human Rights | Bulgaria | Under these rules, only judges may determine the necessity of holding suspects in custody and to set bail. (references) |
Dominican Republic | Some prosecutors confessed that out of "tactical necessity to combat criminality" and "with great reluctance," they tolerated the illegal search practices. (references) | |
Cameroon | However, government authorities in the region believe that the antigang units largely have completed their mission and that the remaining bandits are living in fear, thus eliminating the necessity for excessive use of force. (references) | |
Political Economy | Trinidad | Union membership has declined substantially since 1990, reflecting the public's awareness of the necessity of economic reform and continued high unemployment. (references) |
Political Rights | Belarus | The 1996 Constitution also allows the President to issue decrees having the force of law in circumstances of "specific necessity and urgency," a provision that Lukashenka has interpreted broadly. (references) |
Fiji | The decision of the Court of Appeal to uphold the Constitution was welcomed by local and international human rights groups; however, the interim civilian authorities, backed by the military, became the caretaker administration and remained in power, arguing this was necessary in the interest of national security and under the doctrine of necessity. (references) | |
Trade | Syria | Duty rates are progressive and range from 1%-200%, depending on the government's view of the necessity of a product. (references) |
Travel | Sri Lanka | Business cards are a necessity. (references) |
Mexico | An umbrella is a necessity during this season. (references) | |
Women | Congo | Women sometimes are forced into prostitution by their families out of economic necessity. (references) |
Worker Rights | Guatemala | Economic necessity forces most families to have their children seek some type of employment to supplement family income, especially in rural and indigenous communities. (references) |
Burundi | Most of the population lives by subsistence agriculture, and children are obliged by custom and economic necessity to participate in subsistence agriculture, family-based enterprises, and the informal sector. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Al Hunt | We're skipping around a little bit, Mr. Chairman, but let me ask you this. There is always a trade-off between promoting American ideals and values around the world and necessity. |
William Shatner | I would jump on it in a minute. Absolutely. So, although I'm talking about the tragedy, the death in our life, I'm totally aware of the energy of life and the necessity of living every moment as fully as possible. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | At a considerable expense to the public this manufacture has been brought to such a state of maturity as, with continued encouragement, will supersede the necessity of future importations from foreign countries. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | The appearance of new squadrons in the Mediterranean and the blockade of the Dardanelles indicate the danger of other obstacles to the freedom of commerce and the necessity of keeping our naval force in those seas. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Events are frequently occurring on the North Eastern frontier of a character to impress upon all the necessity of a speedy and definitive termination of the dispute. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. |
Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | All discussion as to their fitness for the place accorded to them as American citizens is idle and unprofitable except as it suggests the necessity for their improvement. |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | Expenditure should always be made with economy and only upon public necessity. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Nevertheless, a new Administration must of necessity build on the spending and revenue estimates already submitted. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | I did this outside of the usual diplomatic channels with the hope that with the necessity of making statements for propaganda removed, there might be constructive progress toward bringing the war to an end. |
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| "Necessity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.94% of the time. "Necessity" is used about 1,796 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.94% | 1,795 | 4,713 |
| Noun (common) | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,796 | N/A |
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Expressions using "necessity": act of necessity ♦ adverse necessity ♦ be the necessity of ♦ be under the necessity of doing ♦ dire necessity ♦ flag of necessity ♦ Fort Necessity ♦ in time of necessity ♦ it's a matter of necessity ♦ make a virtue of necessity ♦ military necessity ♦ necessity rider ♦ of necessity ♦ out of necessity ♦ save the necessity ♦ there was no necessity for so much noise ♦ urged by necessity ♦ vital necessity. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "necessity": necessity-relations. | |
Ending with "necessity": non-necessity. | |
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| Language | Translations for "necessity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nevojë (call, demand, exigency, maun, need, pinch, requirement, straits, want), varfëri (beggary, hardship, indigence, infertility, manginess, misery, need, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, squalor, want), skamje (destitution, indigence, need, penury, poverty), pashmangshmëri (ineluctability, inevitability), domosdoshmëri (necessary). (various references) | |
Arabic | حاجة (bareness, deficiency, need, poverty, requirement, want), عوز (destitution, distress, indigence, lack, misery, need, paucity, pauperism, poorness, poverty, privation, want), ضرورة (call, emergency, exigency, requirement, use), جبة (jubbah, overcoat), إضطرار (constraint), رغبة ملحة (concupiscence), شىء ضروري. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нужда (call, destitution, distress, hardship, necessary, need, pinch, privation, requirement, use, want), нещо необходимо (needful, requisite, thing), необходимост (indispensability, instancy, necessary, need, perforce, requirement), неизбежност (ineluctability, inevitability), нищета (beggary, degradation, deprivation, destitution, distress, extremity, indigence, misery, poverty), мизерия (dunghill, gutter, misery, poverty, squalor), бедност (destitution, pauperism, poorness, poverty, want), предмет от жизнена необходимост, предмет от първа необходимост (essential, necessary), принуда (bondage, coercion, constraint, duress, force, lash, pressure, squeeze), потребност (need, requisite, want). (various references) | |
Chinese | 需 (need, to need, to require, to want), 必需" (essential), 必要性 , 必要 (imperative, Necessary, Necessities, Needful), 必然 (certain, inevitable). (various references) | |
Czech | nutnost (need, occasion, urge, urgency), nutný požadavek, nezbytnost (must). (various references) | |
Danish | nødvendighed. (various references) | |
Dutch | noodzaak. (various references) | |
Esperanto | neceseco. (various references) | |
Farsi | نیازمندی (Dependency, Need, Requirement), نیاز (Need, Requirement, Want), لزوم (Exigency, Incumbency, Need, Supply), ضرورت (Cogency, Exigency, Urgency), احتیاج (Lack, Need, Requirement), بایستگی . (various references) | |
Finnish | välttämättömyys (inevitability, unavoidableness), tarve (need, requirement, want), tarpeellisuus (need), pakko (compulsion, constraint, force). (various references) | |
French | nécessité (need, needness). (various references) | |
German | notwendigkeit (essential, need), not (affliction, destitution, difficulty, distress, emergency, hardship, misery, need, neediness, penury, poverty, pressure, privation, problem, trouble, want), bedürfnis (appetite, call of nature, desire, need, requirement, urge, want, wish). (various references) | |
Greek | αναγκαιότητα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אמצעים "רושים, כורח (compulsion, duress), "כרחיות (indispensability), "כרח (compulsion, need), "בר "כרחי, צורך (call, need, requirement, want). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szükség (exigence, exigency, need, poverty, want), szegénység (beggary, destitution, gutter, indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization, penury, poorness, poverty), szükségszerűség, szükséglet (need, needs, prime necessity, requisite, want), szükségesség, szűkösség (paucity, scantiness, skimpiness), nélkülözés (destitution, distress, hardship, want, wantingness), kényszerűség, életszükségleti cikk. (various references) | |
Indonesian | keperluan (need, requisite, utility), kebutuhan (necessary, need). (various references) | |
Italian | necessit (need, needs, poverty, requirement, want). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 入" (demand, need, requirement), 入り" (demand, need), 必要性 , 必然性 (inevitability). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひつぜ"せい (inevitability), ひつようせい, にゅうよう (demand, need, requirement), いりよう (demand, need). (various references) | |
Korean | 필"성 (Necessities). (various references) | |
Manx | ymmyrch (destitution, exigence, require, want), feme (exigence, need, requirement, requisite, want), egin (compulsion, constraint, duress, emergency, rape, stress). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ecessitynay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | necessidade (call, lack, must, necessary, need, poverty, requirement, requisite, want, washroom). (various references) | |
Romanian | nevoie (business, call, demand, destitution, difficulty, lack, need, poverty, straits, trouble, want), necesitate (call, demand, must, need, requirement, want), trebuinţã (call, lack, need, requirement), strâmtoare (awkwardness, bottle-neck, clutch, constraint, extremity, fix, gorge, gullet, gut, jam, loss, narrow, narrows, scrape, sound, stew, Strait, trouble, unpleasant, want), sãrãcie (baldness, barrenness, dearth, destitution, impecuniosity, indigence, meanness, misery, neediness, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, sterility, stringency, want), lipsã (absence, blemish, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, destitution, drawback, failure, fault, gap, hardship, imperfection, lack, minus, mistake, neediness, out, paucity, penury, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarceness, shortage, shortcoming, stinginess, stringency, vice, want), inevitabilitate, imperativ (imperatival, imperative). (various references) | |
Russian | необходимость (must). (various references) | |
Scottish | éiginn (compulsion : is éiginn domh, distress, I). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nužnost (certainty, need), nužda (need, want), neophodnost, oskudica (dearth, destitution, lack, need, penury, privation, scarceness, scarcity, want, wantage). (various references) | |
Spanish | necesidad (desire, hunger, need, neediness, pinch, poverty, requirement, starvation, straits, want). (various references) | |
Swedish | nödvändighet (essential, exigence, exigency), nöd (destitution, distress, need, neediness, want), behov (desideratum, lack, need, needs, requirement, requiring, requirment, requisite, want). (various references) | |
Thai | สิ่งจำเป็น (biggie, order of the day, requirement, requisite), ความต้องการ (need, request, requirement, requisition). (various references) | |
Turkish | zorunluluk (burden, essentiality, exigence, exigency, imperative, incumbency, indispensability, obligation, ought, urgency), lüzum (materiality, need, requirement, requisition, want), kaçınılmazlık (indispensability, inevitability, urgency), ihtiyaç (call, demand, deprivation, desideratum, exigence, exigency, need, pinch, privation, requirement, want), gereklilik (exigence, exigency, materiality, must, pinch, requirement), gereken (due, necessary, required, the thing, wherewithal), gerek (exigence, exigency, need, pinch, requirement, requisition). (various references) | |
Turkmen | hцkmany (compulsory, obligatory). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нужда (destitution, indigence, need, neediness, privation, want), невідворотність (inevitability), необхідність (must, want), неминучість (certitude, destiny, imminence, imminency, impendence, infallibility, instancy, omnipresence), бідність (bareness, humility, meanness, misery, need, penury, poorness, poverty, shabbiness, tenuity, underprivilege), потреба (demand, hunger, need, requirement, want). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự cần thiết (must, needfulness, perforce), điều tất yếu, đừng chẳng được m vẫn cứ kể công. (various references) | |
Welsh | rhaid (necessary, need). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ate. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | necessitas, necessitate, necessitatem, necessitates, necessitati, necessitatibus, necessitatis, tempora, tempore, tempori, temporibus, temporis, temporum, tempus, tempusque. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 23, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Anagkhn de eicen apoluein autoiV kata eorthn ena |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Necesse autem habebat dimittere eis per diem festum unum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Niede he sceolde him li forgyfan-l anne to hyra freolsdæge. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But he moste nede delyuer to hem oon bi the feest dai. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | For of necessite he must have let one lowse vnto them at that feast. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | (For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.) |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | (For of necessity he must release one to them at the feast.) |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | [] |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 23, Verse 17 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa matag-fiesta, kinahanglan nga iyang pagabuhian ngadto kanila ang usa ka binilanggo. |
| Chinese | " 每 逢 這 節 期 巡 ' 必 釋 " 一 個 囚 犯 給 他 們 〕 |
| Croatian | # |
| Dutch | En hij moest hun op het feest een loslaten. |
| French | A chaque fête, il était obligé de leur relâcher un prisonnier. |
| Haitian Creole | Pou chak fèt Delivrans, Pilat te blije lage yon prizonye ba yo. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena pada hari raya itu wajiblah Pilatus melepaskan seorang terpenjara bagi mereka itu. |
| Italian | . |
| Maori | Kua takoto hoki te tikanga kia tukua atu tetahi ki a ratou i te hakari. |
| Norwegian | Men på høitiden måtte han gi dem én fri. |
| Portuguese | [E era-lhe necessário soltar-lhes um pela festa.] |
| Rumanian | La fiecare praznic al Pawtelor, Pilat trebuia sq le slobozeascq un kntemniyat. |
| Shuar | Túraitiat tuke Túrutai asamtai, Jísat jeakui sepunmaya Chikichík aishmankan Piratu ankant akupkatin ámiayi. Tuma asamtai, nii chichaak "juna Asutián awematjai" Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | Pues tenía necesidad de soltarles uno en cada fiesta. |
| Swahili | missing |
| Swedish | + |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "necessity": nonnecessity. (additional references) | |
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"Necessity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: neccesity, neccessity, necesity, necessaty, necessety, necessite, necsesity, nessessity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "necessity" (pronounced nuse"sutē) |
| 4 | -s u t ē | adversity, analyticity, animosity, atrocity, audacity, authenticity, biodiversity, capacity, complexity, complicity, curiosity, density, laxity, diversity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, ethnicity, falsity, Felicity, ferocity, generosity, incapacity, intensity, mendacity, monstrosity, multiplicity, obesity, opacity, overcapacity, paucity, perplexity, perversity, pomposity, propensity, publicity, reciprocity, religiosity, scarcity, simplicity, specificity, tenacity, toxicity, university, varsity, velocity, veracity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, ability, abnormality, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, austerity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, legality, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, divinity, docility, duality, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, femininity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opportunity, originality, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, personality, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, universality, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, velvety, venality, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, visibility, vitality, volatility, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cysteines. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-s-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: centesis, cysteine, cysteins, cystines, syenites. | |
-2 letters: cystein, cystine, encysts, entices, incests, insects, sestine, syenite. | |
-3 letters: censes, cyeses, cyesis, ecesis, encyst, entice, incest, insect, insets, nicest, nicety, nieces, scenes, scents, seines, steins, sycees, teensy, tenses, yentes. | |
-4 letters: cense, cents, cesti, cetes, cines, cissy, cists, cites, cysts, inset, neist, nests, niece, nites, scene, scent, sects, seine. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-s-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: syncretise. | |
+2 letters: cysteamines, cytokineses, persistency, syncretised, syncretises, syncretizes, synesthetic. | |
+3 letters: intercessory, nonnecessity. | |
+4 letters: necessitously, semisynthetic, typicalnesses. | |
+5 letters: chemosynthesis, cyberneticists, encyclopedists, lysogenicities, synchroneities, systematicness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Bible Trace 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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