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Crucial vs Criticality - What's the difference?

crucial | criticality |

As an adjective crucial

is being essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important.

As a noun criticality is

the state of being critical.

crucial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Being essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-03-07, author= Nicole Vulser
  • , volume=190, issue=13, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Perfume manufacturers must cope with the scarcity of precious supplies , passage=The perfume industry is facing a major problem: maintaining constant levels of quality is crucial , but it is increasingly difficult to obtain a regular supply of all the necessary natural ingredients.}}
  • (label) Cruciform or cruciate; cross-shaped.
  • Term of approval, particularly when applied to reggae music.
  • Derived terms

    * crucial experiment

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    criticality

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia criticality) (criticalities)
  • The state of being critical
  • (education) A disposition for purposeful thinking and acting guided by criteria that are considered to be contextually appropriate and that are expected to result in positive outcomes related to the purpose.
  • (physics) The point at which a nuclear reaction becomes self-sustaining
  • Derived terms

    * criticality accident * criticality matrix * dry criticality * wet criticality * recriticality