ESSENTIALNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does essentialness mean? 

• ESSENTIALNESS (noun)
  The noun ESSENTIALNESS has 1 sense:

1. basic importance

  Familiarity information: ESSENTIALNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESSENTIALNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Basic importance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

essentiality; essentialness

Hypernyms ("essentialness" is a kind of...):

importance (the quality of being important and worthy of note)

Attribute:

essential (basic and fundamental)

inessential; unessential (not basic or fundamental)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "essentialness"):

vitalness (the quality of being essential to maintain life)

indispensability; indispensableness; vitalness (the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without)

Derivation:

essential (defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established)

essential (basic and fundamental)

essential (of the greatest importance)

essential (absolutely necessary; vitally necessary)

essential (being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc)