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Requisitive vs Essential - What's the difference?

requisitive | essential |

As nouns the difference between requisitive and essential

is that requisitive is one who, or that which, makes requisition while essential is a necessary ingredient.

As adjectives the difference between requisitive and essential

is that requisitive is expressing or implying demand while essential is necessary.

requisitive

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who, or that which, makes requisition.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Expressing or implying demand.
    • (Harris)
    (Webster 1913)

    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.

    • Related terms

    * essence ----