Necessitas
See also:
necessitas
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from
Latin
necessitās
. Doublet of
necessity
.
Proper noun
Necessitas
(
Roman
mythology
,
Orphic
theology
)
The personification of absolute
necessity
;
Ananke
.
Further reading
Necessitas
in the
Encyclopædia Britannica
(11th edition, 1911)