unnecessary
adjective
not necessary or essential; needless; unessential.
unnecessariness
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a word derived from
unnecessary.
Example Sentences
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You’re free to deplore the unnecessariness and intra-redundancy of “irregardless,” but there’s no point in pretending it isn’t a word.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2022
I love their weird, ephemeral nature, their maximalist unnecessariness.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2018
A child of educated parents is told in the novel that the key to success is “to forget what one ought not to remember … to recognise the unnecessariness of human emotions”.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2017
I even began to agree with 'er upstairs, about the unnecessariness of it.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 16, 2013
Basically, she looks like she’s excused herself from the proceedings of life’s unnecessariness.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
