necessitude

noun4

1. •
   (rare) A circumstance or event which is necessary or unavoidable, especially because it is a requirement of a social role or natural state of affairs.

   • The Americans. . . fear not the necessitudes of fortune. — 1814
2. •
   (rare) Necessity.

   • In Popperian terms, it demonstrates the necessitude of public debate. — 1981
3. •
   (rare) The state or characteristic of being in need; neediness.

   • It had been of all things the most harassing and wearying—a life of dreary necessitude—a perpetual struggle with debt. — 1870
4. •
   (no longer used) A relation or connection between people or things.

   • The relation and necessitude is trifling and loose, and they are all equally contemptible; because the mind entertains no loves or union. — 1678