İhtiyâc

İhtiyâc is need, but Sami’s entry lets the word carry more weight than simple necessity. It includes lack, dependence and the moment of asking because one has no other way.

Need is both an absence and a relation: the point at which something outside us becomes necessary to us.

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Iranian ink on an original 125-year-old Kâmus-ı Türkî page.
Page 76 · Middle column.

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