n. 25B6; noun
the VCR is now regarded as a necessity : ESSENTIAL, indispensable item, requisite, prerequisite, necessary, basic, sine qua non, desideratum.
political necessity forced him to resign : FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCE, obligation, need, call, exigency; force majeure.
the necessity of growing old : INEVITABILITY, certainty, inescapability, inexorability, ineluctability.
necessity made them steal : POVERTY, need, neediness, want, deprivation, privation, penury, destitution, indigence.
25A0; of necessity NECESSARILY, inevitably, unavoidably, inescapably, ineluctably; as a matter of course, naturally, automatically, certainly, surely, definitely, incontrovertibly, undoubtedly; formal perforce.