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What is the noun for necessities?

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necessity
  1. The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
  2. The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack
  3. Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
  4. Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power
  5. The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
  6. (law) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
  7. (plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “An active lifestyle is a necessity for healthy living.”
      “The necessity of having devoted teachers cannot be understated.”
      “However, no systematic rules for the necessity of a certain sequence have been recognized.”
necessitude
  1. (rare) The state or characteristic of being in need; neediness.
  2. (rare, usually pluralized) A circumstance or event which is necessary or unavoidable, especially because it is a requirement of a social role or natural state of affairs.
  3. (philosophy) Necessity.
  4. (archaic) A relation or connection between people or things.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Even if she could have faced life without him, she could not go through it all again, the bankruptcy and shame and necessitude.”
      “In Popperian terms, it demonstrates the necessitude of public debate.”
necessitousness
necessitation
  1. (philosophy) Necessity, understood as a logical or other philosophical principle, or as a law or force of nature.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “For this reason the determination we are concerned with is not a necessitation.”
      “We have no sensations resembling necessitation, and, yet, causes necessitate their effects.”
      “This tends to have the individual an over necessitation in the sense of their responsibility to the animal.”
necessary
necessitative
  1. (grammar) A grammatical form that indicates necessity.
necessaries
  1. Necessary or indispensable items.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Please make sure to pack all the necessaries for our camping trip, including a tent, sleeping bags, and cooking utensils.”
      “And a big plus is that it's not too trendy to supply the necessaries for making coffee and tea.”
      “I picked up enough consumables and necessaries to tide us over the next couple of days.”
necessariness
  1. The state or characteristic of being necessary.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The test was so general that defendant flooded the court's docket with appeals seeking judicial examination of the necessariness of prearraignment detentions.”
necessitie
  1. Obsolete spelling of necessity
necessitations
necessitatives
  1. plural of necessitative
necessitudes
necessities
  1. plural of necessity
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  3. Examples:
    1. “My mother was economical and a good manager, so we never went without any necessities.”
      “The first six days of the week are workdays in which we work hard to produce food and other necessities.”
      “Children born can have a blanket at the time of birth or the fall following according to the necessities of the mother.”
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