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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun essentiality has 1 sense
- essentiality(n = noun.attribute) essentialness - basic importance; Array is a kind of importance
has particulars: vitalness, indispensability, indispensableness, vitalness
Derived forms adjective essential2, adjective essential3
Antonym: inessentiality
CIDE DICTIONARY
essentiality, n.
The quality of being essential; the essential part. Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
essentiality
Requirement
N requirement, need, wants, necessities, necessaries, necessaries of life, stress, exigency, pinch, sine qua non, matter of necessity, case of need, case of life or death, needfulness, essentiality, necessity, indispensability, urgency, requisition, run upon, demand, call for, charge, claim, command, injunction, mandate, order, precept, desideratum, want, Adj, required, requisite, needful, necessary, imperative, essential, indispensable, prerequisite, called for, in demand, in request, urgent, exigent, pressing, instant, crying, absorbing, in want of, destitute of, ex necessitate rei, of necessity, there is no time to lose, it cannot be spared, it cannot be dispensed with, mendacem memorem esse oportet, necessitas non habet legem, nec tecum possum trivere nec sine te.
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