dispensable
adjective
capable of being dispensed with or done without; not necessary or essential.
dispensability
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a word derived from
dispensable.
Example Sentences
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One centered on the precarity and dispensability of our own jobs.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2022
We read varied but converging accounts that speak to the seeming dispensability of the elderly.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2021
It firmly reminds you of humanity’s essential dispensability even as it opens you to your own vastness.
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2018
Q. Talk more about this notion of dispensability.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2010
