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How to pronounce “necessity”
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Pronunciation guide for necessity
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of necessity with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Science can answer moral questions
we are, of necessity, talking about the human brain.
- Definition summary
- The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
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How to pronounce necessity
Science can answer moral questions
we are, of necessity, talking about the human brain.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “necessity”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
- The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
- Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
- Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
- The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (law) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
- (law, in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).
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