Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being essential.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being essential; the essential part.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being
essential ; a basic set of essential traits;being - noun An
essential thing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun basic importance
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Essential vs. Accidental Properties Robertson, Teresa 2008
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The notebook is supposed to offer "essentiality", whatever that means.
The Inquirer 2010
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The notebook is supposed to offer "essentiality", whatever that means.
The Inquirer 2010
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But the essentiality of electricity to modernity is incontrovertible.
Robert Bryce: From Kyoto to Copenhagen to... Hanoi? The Looming Failure of Yet Another Climate Change Meeting Robert Bryce 2011
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But the essentiality of electricity to modernity is incontrovertible.
Robert Bryce: From Kyoto to Copenhagen to... Hanoi? The Looming Failure of Yet Another Climate Change Meeting Robert Bryce 2011
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As newsroom Latinos continue to decline, Nate is has been a notable exception in 2011 -- not only by keeping his job, but by increasing his essentiality to LATimes online.
Pablo Manriquez: 7 Young Latinos In Online Media To Watch In 2012 Pablo Manriquez 2011
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Carbon-dioxide emissions are growing because people around the world understand the essentiality of electricity to modernity.
Five Truths About Climate Change Robert Bryce 2011
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But the essentiality of electricity to modernity is incontrovertible.
Robert Bryce: From Kyoto to Copenhagen to... Hanoi? The Looming Failure of Yet Another Climate Change Meeting Robert Bryce 2011
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So, I'm hoping that he understands the essentiality of the public option.
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But the essentiality of electricity to modernity is incontrovertible.
Robert Bryce: From Kyoto to Copenhagen to... Hanoi? The Looming Failure of Yet Another Climate Change Meeting Robert Bryce 2011
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