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ESSENTIALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does essentiality mean? 

ESSENTIALITY (noun)
  The noun ESSENTIALITY has 1 sense:

1. basic importanceplay

  Familiarity information: ESSENTIALITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ESSENTIALITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Basic importance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

essentiality; essentialness

Hypernyms ("essentiality" is a kind of...):

importance (the quality of being important and worthy of note)

Attribute:

essential (basic and fundamental)

inessential; unessential (not basic or fundamental)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "essentiality"):

vitalness (the quality of being essential to maintain life)

indispensability; indispensableness; vitalness (the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without)

Antonym:

inessentiality (not of basic importance)

Derivation:

essential (basic and fundamental)

essential (of the greatest importance)


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