A period or time where there is little activity, productivity, low income etc.
A drawn-out period where the weather has been dry, for an abnormally long time; shorter and not as severe as a drought.
A period of time without sexual intercourse.
The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
Indispensable requirements (of life).
The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.