Definitions For Necessitousness
Noun
NECESSITOUSNESS (uncountable) The state or condition of impoverishment; material need, especially of an urgent nature. (rare) The state or condition of being necessary or essential; necessity.Usage notes
necessitude, Necessitude, , necessitousness, necessitation, necessariness are all nouns closely related to necessity, but they tend to have narrower ranges of usage than the term , necessity. The principal sense of , necessitude and , necessitousness is impoverishment, but the plural form of the former (necessitudes) denotes a set of circumstances which is inevitable or unavoidable. , Necessitation is used to suggest necessity as a philosophical or cosmic principle. , Necessariness tends to be used to stress a direct connection to the adjective necessary.Related terms
necessitousEtymology
from necessitous , -ness.Is Necessitousness a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
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Scrabble US
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Scrabble UK
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English International (SOWPODS)
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Points in Different Games
Scrabble
17
Words with Friends
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The word Necessitousness is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 21 points in Words with Friends
Examples of Necessitousness in a Sentence
- All the dreaded, necessitous decisions that one must make when arranging the funeral of a loved one
- Amidst the holiday feasting, merrymaking and spending, it was easy to overlook the necessitous members of the community