Synonyms & related words for necessities

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Words related to necessities

Explore words related to necessities — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include necessaries, essential, requisite, requirement, essentialness, needfulness, needful, luxuries. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Where does necessities come from?

The word necessities breaks down into 3 roots of Latin and English origin: necessit, from Latin necessitas (“need, compulsion”); -i, from Latin -y (“state or quality”); and -es, from English -s (“plural”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.