necessitation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Necessity, understood as a logical or other philosophical principle, or as a law or force of nature.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Moral obligation is not necessitation. The moral law commands but does not coerce us."
- "The voluntary actions of men are now seen to claim an equal freedom from the necessitation of natural causes."
- "Determinism is an example: it alleges that all the seeming irregularities and spontaneities in the world are haunted by an omnipresent system of strict necessitation."
- "In virtue of their contents, psychological states stand in logical relations like incompatibility, material implication, and conceptual necessitation."
Etymology
Etymology tree English necessitate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English necessitation From necessitate + -ation.