Essentiality

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The quality of being essential.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality of being essential; the essential part.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The condition of being essential; a basic set of essential traits; being
  • noun. An essential thing.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. basic importance
  • Word Usage
    "The modal characterization of an essential property of an object as a property that an object must have fits well with (at least one aspect of) our everyday understanding of the notion of essentiality, which often seems simply to be the notion of necessity."
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