Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being necessary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being necessary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or characteristic of being
necessary .
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Examples
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I sense that he senses the "necessariness" of his being elected and that there is a certain amount of calculation involved in his moderate posing on big progressive issues.
In An Interview With TPM, Krugman Ramps Up Case Against Obama 2009
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"It's silly to expect 'necessariness' from any movie, and there's no crime in handsomely assembling a moving diorama of a fascinating historical event," writes
GreenCine Daily 2009
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"It's silly to expect 'necessariness' from any movie, and there's no crime in handsomely assembling a moving diorama of a fascinating historical event," writes
GreenCine Daily 2009
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"It's silly to expect 'necessariness' from any movie, and there's no crime in handsomely assembling a moving diorama of a fascinating historical event," writes
GreenCine Daily 2009
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How can we recreate the sense of "unshakable meaning" and "necessariness" Junger describes?
Arianna Huffington: What Soldiers at War Can Teach Us About Surviving Financial Warfare 2010
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Every guy in that platoon was necessary to everyone else and that necessariness, I think, is actually way more addictive than adrenaline is.
Arianna Huffington: What Soldiers at War Can Teach Us About Surviving Financial Warfare 2010
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How can we create our own bands of brothers -- and sisters -- in communities all across the country that will not only give us that sense of purpose and necessariness, but allow us to face down these threats?
Arianna Huffington: What Soldiers at War Can Teach Us About Surviving Financial Warfare 2010
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The two lines suggest the idea of the close connexion between the two plants, and the necessariness of the one to the other; - as it should be between husband and wife.
The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 James Legge 1856
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