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INDISPENSABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does indispensability mean?
• INDISPENSABILITY (noun)
The noun INDISPENSABILITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without
Familiarity information: INDISPENSABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
indispensability; indispensableness; vitalness
Hypernyms ("indispensability" is a kind of...):
essentiality; essentialness (basic importance)
Antonym:
dispensability (the quality possessed by something that you can get along without)
Derivation:
indispensable (not to be dispensed with; essential)
indispensable (absolutely necessary; vitally necessary)
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