Indispensability vs Indispensable - What's the difference?
indispensability | indispensable |
The characteristic of being indispensable.
* 1869 , The Uncommercial Traveller , ch. 11:
(ecclesiastical, obsolete) Not admitting ecclesiastical dispensation; not subject to release or exemption; that cannot be allowed by bending the canonical rules.
Absolutely necessary or requisite; that one cannot do without.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
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, chapter=2 A thing that is not dispensable; a necessity.
(in the plural, colloquial, dated) Trousers.
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Indispensability is a derived term of indispensable.
As nouns the difference between indispensability and indispensable
is that indispensability is the characteristic of being indispensable while indispensable is a thing that is not dispensable; a necessity.As a adjective indispensable is
(ecclesiastical|obsolete) not admitting ecclesiastical dispensation; not subject to release or exemption; that cannot be allowed by bending the canonical rules.indispensability
English
Noun
(indispensabilities)- In thinly-peopled spots, I have known brick-layers on tramp, coming up with bricklayers at work, to be so sensible of the indispensability of lookers-on, that they themselves have sat up in that capacity, and have been unable to subside into the acceptance of a proffered share in the job, for two or three days together.
indispensable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The law was moral and indispensable . -Bp. Burnet
- An indispensable component of a heart-healthy diet.
citation, passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal. This only magnified the indispensable nature of the oligopolists.}}
