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unnecessariness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being unnecessary; needlessness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The state or characteristic of being unnecessary.

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Examples

  • I felt that God was surrounding you with love care and affection, not trying to get you to face up to your ultimate unnecessariness.

    Wineskins Old and New Belinda 2009

  • I honestly confess that I should confine my grounds of opposition to the article thus stated to its unnecessariness, to the want of sufficient proofs from Scripture that I am bound to believe or trouble my head with it.

    Coleridge on Tillotson Against Transubstantiation 2006

  • A few stores still thrive, commercial success being in direct proportion to the unnecessariness of the product being provided by that store.

    Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992

  • It is not, however, through envy that the 'prosperity of fools destroys us,' so much as the knowledge of its unnecessariness and waste.

    Some Private Views James Payn 1864

  • I honestly confess that I should confine my grounds of opposition to the article thus stated to its unnecessariness, to the want of sufficient proofs from Scripture that I am bound to believe or trouble my head with it.

    The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820

  • I fully support the cause, and am gonna go sign the petition in a moment, but I could wish that they’d talked less about the horrifying nature of the slaughtering process and more about the unnecessariness sp? and the dolphins’ cognitive ability.

    Act Now to Help End Japanese Dolphin Drive Hunting - The Panda's Thumb 2006

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