Definitions

necessitude

[nuh-ses-i-tood, -tyood] / nəˈsɛs ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud /

NOUN

matter of life and death

Synonyms

WEAK

case of emergency case of need emergency exigency grave affair matter of necessity urgency vitalness

Example Sentences

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But I give always my interest, not according to the interestingness, but rather to the necessitude, of each.”

From Project Gutenberg

It had been of all things the most harassing and wearing—a life of dreary necessitude—a perpetual struggle with debt.

From Project Gutenberg