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Essential vs Necessitousness - What's the difference?

essential | necessitousness |

As nouns the difference between essential and necessitousness

is that essential is a necessary ingredient while necessitousness is the state or condition of impoverishment; material need, especially of an urgent nature.

As an adjective essential

is necessary.

essential

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Necessary.
  • Very important; of high importance.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
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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.

    • Related terms

    * essence ----

    necessitousness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or condition of impoverishment; material need, especially of an urgent nature.
  • *1973 , Jacob Ziegel, "Recent Developments in Canadian Consumer Credit Law," The Modern Law Review , vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 495-6:
  • *:If necessitousness implies a pressing need for the money and a lack of ability to bargain over rates, then it would seem the modern consumer is not in a very different position from his pre-war cousin.
  • (rare) The state or condition of being necessary or essential; necessity.
  • *1946 , Walter Firey, "Ecological Considerations in Planning for Rurban Fringes," American Sociological Review , vol. 11, no. 4, p. 413:
  • *:Some of the forces incline the land toward agricultural use, others incline it toward residential use. . . . There is no economic necessitousness that would dictate one or the other use.

    • Usage notes

    * (term), (necessitousness), (necessitation), (necessariness) are all nouns closely related to (necessity), but they tend to have narrower ranges of usage than the term necessity''. The principal sense of ''necessitude'' and ''necessitousness'' is impoverishment, but the plural form of the former ((necessitudes)) denotes a set of circumstances which is inevitable or unavoidable. ''Necessitation'' is used to suggest necessity as a philosophical or cosmic principle. ''Necessariness tends to be used to stress a direct connection to the adjective (necessary).

    Related terms

    * necessitous