Definitions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without
- noun the quality of being essential to maintain life
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Examples
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What's notable here is the way that Crowe's step-by-step investigation makes a passionate case for the vitalness of newspaper reporting.
NY1 - Top Stories 2009
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"I should think," meditated Page, taking the matter into serious consideration, "that the vitalness of even that experience would depend somewhat on the character undergoing it.
The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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