how to pronounce necessity

/nəˈsɛsətiː/

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necessity is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of necessity in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… and necessity and the shop floor plumbing bridge work and saw marie curie limone …”

meaning of necessity

Necessity is the quality of being necessary or essential.

necessity frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word necessity occurs in english on average 11.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics necessity can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that necessity can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;