indispensability
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7.4
- noun
- /ˌɪndɪspənˈsæbɪlɪti/
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indispensabilidad
- At the heart of the doctrines and policies' shortcomings is that they do not pay sufficient attention to state interests, material power, and the indispensability of states in the international system.
What it accounts indispensable and hard, adding indispensability to that it calls good.
- What it accounts indispensable and hard, adding indispensability to that it calls good.
Examples
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Why do children as different as Abbott and Costello agree completely about the indispensability of The Cat in the Hat?
Fiction book (2001) -
While we are impressed by our own work in the field, we have not realized a sense of our indispensability across the wider educational community.
Academic text (2011) -
Yet the indispensability of a widows' and orphans' fund continued to be felt on the island.
Academic text (1996) -
Minority rights must become integral to all of us because of their practical indispensability and because many of us, at any time, in any place, may find ourselves in the minority.
Academic text (1990) -
A 1991 statement issued by the Embassy of Jordan in Washington also emphasized the indispensability of Jordanian participation in the negotiations.
Academic text (1993) -
The shrewd statesman, however, does not overlook their utility, even their indispensability, for publicly defining those interests.
Academic text (1996) -
Stieglitz capitalized on a widely perceived sense of spiritual confusion and added not a small amount of his own theatricality to argue for the indispensability of his circle of modernism to the nation's cultural horizons.
Academic text (2003) -
The teacher emphasized the indispensability of good study habits for academic success.
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In emergencies, the indispensability of first aid skills can save lives.
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He demonstrated the indispensability of teamwork in completing the project on time.
Synonyms
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2.0
A thing you need to live, like food or water
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9.9
Something that must exist for something else to work
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6.6
How necessary and important something is
A state in which something is completely needed and cannot be done without
A thing that is needed and very important for something to work or happen
How much something is needed
A quality that makes something very important for life or success
A quality when something is one of a kind and very needed so nothing can take its place
Antonyms
How Necessary
Surface Forms
Morphology
indispensability = indispensable (transparent) = indispensable + ity
Formed by adding the productive noun-forming suffix '-ity' to the adjective 'indispensable', yielding the quality or state of being indispensable.
Etymology
Indispensability breaks into in- meaning 'not' and dispense meaning 'to give out' or 'to do without', the same part you see in dispensable and dispense. So indispensability is the state of being something you cannot do without — it is really necessary.