Essential vs Congenital - What's the difference?

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Essential is a related term of congenital.

As adjectives the difference between essential and congenital

is that essential is necessary while congenital is congenital: originating before birth and continuing or progressing thereafter.

As a noun essential

is a necessary ingredient.

essential

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Necessary.

Very important; of high importance.

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Being in the basic form; showing its essence.

Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.

Really existing; existent.

* Webster (1623)

Is it true, that thou art but a name, / And no essential thing?

Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.

(medicine) Idiopathic.

Synonyms

* indispensable, crucial, substantive * See also

Antonyms

* inessential, unessential, accidental, nonessential, unneeded, adscititious, unimportant, accessorial, unnecessary, incidental

Derived terms

* essential amino acid * essential fatty acid * essential listening * essential nutrient * essential oil * essentially * essentialness * quintessential

Noun

(en noun)

A necessary ingredient.

A fundamental ingredient.

congenital

English

Adjective

(-)

(of a trait) Present since birth.