necessity

Noun

• anything indispensable
  • food and shelter are necessities of life
    
  • the essentials of the good life
    
  • allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions
    
  • a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained
    

• the condition of being essential or indispensable

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  essential , requirement , requisite , necessary
• Antonyms: 
  inessential , nonessential