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Definition of Inessentiality
1. Noun. Not of basic importance.
Generic synonyms: Unimportance
Specialized synonyms: Dispensability, Dispensableness
Antonyms: Essentiality
Derivative terms: Inessential
Specialized synonyms: Dispensability, Dispensableness
Antonyms: Essentiality
Derivative terms: Inessential
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inessentiality
Literary usage of Inessentiality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philosophy and Theology: Being the First Edinburgh University Gifford Lectures by James Hutchison Stirling (1890)
"Contingency, in this sense, is inessentiality, ... It is easy to understand that
the order of the things on a dinner table is such inessentiality, ..."
2. Syllabus of a Proposed System of Logic by Augustus De Morgan (1860)
"The repugnant has the utmost inessentiality, and may have the utmost independence.
The alternative has the utmost independence, and may have the utmost ..."
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