nonnecessity

Examples

• All

• During hard times, people often give up nonnecessity purchases like designer clothes.

• A phone is a nonnecessity.

• Traveling light means leaving all nonnecessity items at home.

• Many consider a second car a nonnecessity in urban areas.

• The designer emphasized that her expensive handbag was merely a nonnecessity and not essential to her wardrobe.

• For many families, a second car is seen as a nonnecessity during tough economic times.

• He realized that his collection of rare stamps was a nonnecessity and decided to sell them.

Synonyms

N

nonessential

vsnonnecessity

1 5.6

A thing that is not needed

focuses on the general quality or state rather than a single thing

I

inessential

vsnonnecessity

1 5.5

A thing you do not need and can leave behind

emphasizes lack of necessity rather than low importance

U

unnecessity

vsnonnecessity

8.4

A thing or situation that is not needed

is the same in meaning but presented as a different word form

I

inessentiality

vsnonnecessity

9.6

A state in which something is not necessary

covers both individual things and this general quality

E

extraneousness

vsnonnecessity

9.9

The fact of not being related or important to the main point

focuses on not being necessary rather than being irrelevant or unrelated

Antonyms

N

necessity

274 2.0

A thing you need to live, like food or water

How Necessary

necessity

274 2.0

convenience

116 1.4

nonnecessity

7.4

option

∞ 2.2

luxury

322 4.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology