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Necessitousness

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state or condition of impoverishment; material need, especially of an urgent nature. uncountable

    "[…] give thou also before asking; that is, where want is silently clamorous, and men’s necessities not their tongues do loudly call for thy mercies. For though sometimes necessitousness be dumb, or misery speak not out, yet true charity is sagacious, and will find out hints for beneficence."

  2. 2
    The state or condition of being necessary or essential; necessity. rare, uncountable

    "Some of the forces incline the land toward agricultural use, others incline it toward residential use. . . . There is no economic necessitousness that would dictate one or the other use."

Etymology

From necessitous + -ness.

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