necessities
- 1Plural of necessity.
The charity distributes daily necessities to families displaced by the flood.
Rising prices have made even the simplest necessities harder to afford.
Note
The plural is where the word turns concrete. In the singular it can name a state, such as being necessary, being in need, or the force that makes an event unavoidable. Counted, it usually means the things themselves: the requisites a household cannot do without. Abstract uses, like the philosopher's necessity set against freedom, rarely take the plural. The spelling is regular, with -y after a consonant becoming -ies.
necessities is a form of necessity
necessity, noun: The fact that something is essential or that it must happen. Full entry
- Forms
- necessitynecessities plural
- Spelling
- necessity → necessities: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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