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essentiality

essentiality

7.7
How much something is needed
  • noun
  • /ɪˌsɛnʃiˈælɪti/
translation icon : esencialidad
  • The essentiality of regular exercise for maintaining good health has been proven.

What ought to be there is an essentiality solely by meaning.

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Examples

  • The Tallinn Manual's commentary on Rule 26 circumscribes essentiality as "of fundamental and great importance to the State concerned." 86

    Academic text (2017)
  • The essentiality of water for sustaining life cannot be overstated.

  • What ought to be there is an essentiality solely by meaning.

  • "The Supreme Court intervened in the legislative inquisition, speaking of the "essentiality of freedom in the community of American universities" as being "almost self-evident."

    Academic text (2002)
  • Olson, Laura R. 2011. "The Essentiality of 'Culture' in the Study of Religion and Politics." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 50 (4): 639-53.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Essentiality, gravity, and imminence are thus key qualifiers for identifying situations of a certain pressing quality that rise to the level of necessity.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Though Pueblo stories in their original spoken delivery have a form that is identifiable in story after story, there is always a quality of freshness and spontaneity that gives them an aspect of essentiality.

    Academic text (1992)
  • I will begin with these relationships, in particular that of Gillette and Poussin, and then I will propose that Balzac's tale argues for the essentiality of modesty in love and in art.

    Academic text (1992)
  • In education, the essentiality of critical thinking skills is often emphasized.

Synonyms

essence
vsessentiality
441 4.8

The central idea or most important part of something

is about being absolutely necessary rather than simply the central defining core
necessity
vsessentiality
274 2.0

A thing you need to live, like food or water

describes the abstract quality that makes something basic or required
essentialness
vsessentiality
1 6.6

How necessary and important something is

is the same meaning but appears as another noun form
indispensability
vsessentiality
1 7.4

Being necessary for something to work or succeed

focuses on the overall quality rather than the specific state or condition
indispensableness
vsessentiality
8.2

A state in which something is completely needed and cannot be done without

highlights the basic importance as a defining nature rather than a condition
requisiteness
vsessentiality
9.9

A thing that is needed and very important for something to work or happen

emphasizes basic importance of the thing rather than mere requirement for a purpose
fundamentalness
vsessentiality
8.1

The degree to which something is important and basic

is about necessity as a defining quality rather than mere basic nature
fundamentality
vsessentiality
7.7

How basic and most important something is

highlights the necessary quality that makes something basically important rather than centrality
cruciality
vsessentiality
8.2

The great importance of something for a result or decision

refers to the basic necessary nature rather than urgency or immediate need
vitalness
vsessentiality
5.7

A quality that makes something very important for life or success

means the same basic necessity but without the life or success focus

Antonyms

1 4.6

A situation or thing that is not worth much attention

A state in which something is not necessary

How Essential

vital for
12 3.9
essentiality
7.7
importance
663 1.0
small-time
47 5.9
triviality
6 5.4

Surface Forms

essentiality singular

Morphology

essentiality = essential (transparent) = essential + ity

Standard abstract noun formation from the adjective 'essential' with '-ity' meaning 'the state or quality of being essential', which is directly derivable for learners.

Etymology

Essentiality comes from the same root as essence and essential, from the Latin esse meaning 'to be', and the ending -ity makes a word for a state or quality. So, essentiality is the 'state of being essential', the basic or necessary nature of something.