Synonyms of the word

necessity

• n. The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
• n. The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
• n. Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
• n. Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
• n. The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual,…
• n. (law) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
• n. (law, in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).

demand

• n. The desire to purchase goods and services.
• n. (economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
• n. A need.
• n. A claim for something.
• n. A requirement.
• n. An urgent request.
• n. An order.
• n. (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a…
• v. To request forcefully.
• v. To claim a right to something.
• v. To ask forcefully for information.
• v. To require of someone.
• v. (law) To issue a summons to court.

essential

• adj. Necessary.
• adj. Very important; of high importance.
• adj. (biology) necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
• adj. Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
• adj. Really existing; existent.
• adj. (of a lamination of a 3-manifold) Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of…
• adj. (medicine) Idiopathic.
• n. A necessary ingredient.
• n. A fundamental ingredient.

necessary

• adj. Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid…
• adj. Unavoidable, inevitable.
• adj. (obsolete) Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
• n. (Britain, archaic euphemistic, usually with the definite article) A place to do the "necessary" business…

need

• n. (countable and uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed.
• n. Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
• v. (transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.
• v. (transitive) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
• v. (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
• v. (intransitive) To be required; to be necessary.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be necessary (to someone).

requirement

• n. A necessity or prerequisite; something required or obligatory. Its adpositions are generally of in relation…
• n. Something asked.
• n. (engineering) A statement (in domain specific terms) which specifies a verifiable constraint on an implementation…

requisite

• adj. Essential, required, indispensable.
• n. An indispensable item; a requirement.

thing

• n. That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
• n. A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
• n. An individual object or distinct entity.
• n. (informal) Something that is normal or generally recognised.
• n. (law).
• n. (somewhat dated) The latest fad or fashion.
• n. (in the plural) Clothes, possessions or equipment.
• n. (informal) A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.
• n. (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
• n. (slang) A penis.
• n. A living being or creature.
• n. That which matters; the crux.
• n. Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
• n. (informal) That which is favoured; personal preference. (Used in possessive constructions.).
• n. (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
• v. (rare) To express as a thing; to reify.