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INESSENTIALITY

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

• INESSENTIALITY (noun)

Sense 1

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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)

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