necessariness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English necessary Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English necessariness From necessary + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being necessary.
The test was so general that defendant flooded the court's docket with appeals seeking judicial examination of the necessariness of prearraignment detentions.
1981, Jerald P. Keene, “The Ill-Advised State Court Revival of the 'McNabb-Mallory' Rule”, in The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, volume 72, number 1, page 222:A journey, one would think, ought to have a certain necessariness; there must be a reason for going.
2001 November 19, Jason Cowley, “Books: Still life in mobile homes”, in New Statesman, UK, retrieved 30 Sep 2008:Time and space are themselves part of the phenomena or object. . . . It is the necessariness of these perceptions which has led to their being elevated to the position of abstract wholes in which all things exist.
1898, S. S. Laurie, “The Growth of Mind as a Real and the Influence of the Formal on the Real”, in The School Revew, volume 6, number 4, page 255: