D defs.my
Menu ☰
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Necessitarianism

· Ne·ces·si·ta·ri·an·ism · IPA
01 n. The doctrine of philosophical necessity; the doctrine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp. that the will is not…
  1. 1.
    The doctrine of philosophical necessity; the doctrine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp. that the will is not free, but that human actions and choices result inevitably from motives; determinism.