Cause and Necessity

Cause

Cause noun - Someone or something responsible for a result.

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Necessity and cause are semantically related in reason topic. In some cases you can use "Necessity" instead a noun "Cause", when it comes to topics like start.

Nearby Words: caused, causation, causeless, causative, causal

Necessity

Necessity noun - Something necessary, indispensable, or unavoidable.

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Cause and necessity are semantically related in need topic. Sometimes you can use "Cause" instead a noun "Necessity", if it concerns topics such as start.

Nearby Words: necessary, necessarily, necessitous

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How words are described

human	human cause	human necessity
good	good cause	good necessity
obvious	obvious cause	obvious necessity
actual	actual cause	actual necessity
Other adjectives: bad, new, immediate, frequent, political, apparent, medical, biological.

Both words in one sentence

She's quite willing to kill for honour or necessity or a cause, but not for that.

Source: Literature / Dragaera
Sometimes it would cause the investigators to angst over the necessity of upholding the law despite their sympathy for the "murderer."

Source: Accidental Murder
Even Evil Has Standards: Van Leyden is visibly nauseated by the massacre, and seems to regret that killing the Prince is a necessity for his cause.

Source: Film / North West Frontier

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