[{"word":"necessity","phonetic":"/nɪˈsɛsəti/","phonetics":[{"text":"/nɪˈsɛsəti/","audio":"https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/necessity-us.mp3","sourceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1648272","license":{"name":"BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"}}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"I bought a new table out of necessity. My old one was ruined."},{"definition":"The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"A tent is a necessity if you plan on camping."},{"definition":"Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"doctrine of necessity"},{"definition":"(in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":["certainty","inevitability"],"antonyms":["luxury","contingency","impossibility"]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/necessity"]}]