essential

adj
/ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl/CA/ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl/US

Etymology

From Late Latin essentiālis, from Latin essentia (“being, essence”).

  1. derived from essentia
  2. borrowed from essentiālis

Definitions

  1. Necessary.

    • There’s canker at the root, your seed Denies the blessing of the sun, The light essential to your need. Your hopes are murdered and undone.
    • Thus, research-based resources with the potential to assist teachers prepare secondary students for tertiary education are essential.
  2. Very important

    Very important; of high importance.

    • In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […]
  3. Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.

  4. + 7 more definitions
    1. Being in the basic form

      Being in the basic form; showing its essence.

      • Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.
    2. Really existing

      Really existing; existent.

      • Or is it true, that thou art but a bare name, / And no eſſential thing?
    3. Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary…

      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.

    4. Idiopathic.

      • essential blepharospasm
    5. Having the nature of essence

      Having the nature of essence; not physical.

    6. A necessary ingredient.

    7. A fundamental ingredient.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at essential. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at essential. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at essential

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA