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INESSENTIALITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inessentiality mean?
• INESSENTIALITY (noun)
The noun INESSENTIALITY has 1 sense:
1. not of basic importance
Familiarity information: INESSENTIALITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not of basic importance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("inessentiality" is a kind of...):
unimportance (the quality of not being important or worthy of note)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inessentiality"):
dispensability; dispensableness (the quality possessed by something that you can get along without)
Antonym:
essentiality (basic importance)
Derivation:
inessential (not basic or fundamental)
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