Etymology
Origin of essentiality
Example Sentences
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Subplots like this have granted “The Pitt” a kind of cultural essentiality.
From Salon • Feb. 26, 2026
This "thought experiment" enabled them to calculate the "keystoneness" or the relative essentiality of each species in each community.
From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2023
In that brimmed another truth Rich Beem has carried through the 20 years that followed the one day: the essentiality of humor.
From Washington Post • May 19, 2022
The verdict relied on what’s known as the essentiality test — basically, whether a religious practice is or is not obligatory under that faith.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2022
By God, I mean a being absolutely infinite—that is, a substance consisting in infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality.
From Ethics by Spinoza, Benedictus de
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