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

necessitous

Etymology

from necessitous , -ness.

Is Necessitousness a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends NO
Scrabble US NO
Scrabble UK NO
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global NO
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Points in Different Games

Scrabble
17
Words with Friends
21

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

Antonyms for Necessitousness

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