Clues for the word "NECESSITY"
We've had 11 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 30 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on February 21, 2026.
Definition of necessity
- n. - The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
- n. - The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
- n. - That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural.
- n. - That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.
- n. - The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
Referring Clues
- Sine qua non
- Requirement
- It's indispensable
- You can't do without it
- Mother of invention?
- Must it end in tragedy following extraordinary scenes?
- Prerequisite - poverty
- Want to find oriental ship docked in north-eastern town
- ___ marshal keeping piano out of sink, which can't be helped
- Need
- Indispensable thing
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - February 21, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 07, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - October 10, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 30, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 15, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 15, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 15, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 24, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 24, 2024
- Mirror Daily - February 22, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 13, 2023
- Family Time - October 22, 2023
- Your Life Choices - August 27, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - February 22, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - January 10, 2023
- Your Life Choices - July 20, 2022
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - January 18, 2018
- Mirror Daily - November 28, 2017
- Your Life Choices - October 31, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - August 21, 2017
- Guardian Quick - July 21, 2017
- Mirror Daily - November 28, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - August 22, 2016
- USA Today - August 05, 2016
- Washington Post - December 27, 2012
- Guardian Quick - September 28, 2012
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - July 15, 2012
- Guardian Prize - September 22, 2007
- Washington Post - April 10, 2005
- Guardian Quiptic - December 16, 2002