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ESSENTIALITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does essentiality mean?
• ESSENTIALITY (noun)
The noun ESSENTIALITY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: ESSENTIALITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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