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Necessitation

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Necessity, understood as a logical or other philosophical principle, or as a law or force of nature. countable, uncountable

    "Moral obligation is not necessitation. The moral law commands but does not coerce us."

Etymology

From necessitate + -ation.

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