essential

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Synonyms: esential, inessential, essentials, essentiate, coessential, unessential, essencia, absential, evential, essenian

Antonyms: esential, inessential, essentials, essentiate, coessential, unessential, essencia, absential, evential, essenian

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Adjective

1. [[necessary|Necessary]].
2. Very [[important]]; of high [[importance]].
3. {{lb|en|biology}} [[necessary|Necessary]] for survival but not [[synthesize]]d by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
4. Being in the [[basic]] form; showing its [[essence]].
5. Really existing; [[existent]].
6. {{lb|en|geometry}} Such that each [[complementary region]] is [[irreducible]], the [[boundary]] of each complementary region is [[incompressible]] by [[disk]]s and [[monogon]]s in the complementary region, and no [[leaf]] is a [[sphere]] or a [[torus]] [[bound]]ing a [[solid torus]] in the [[manifold]].
7. {{lb|en|medicine}} [[idiopathic|Idiopathic]].
8. Having the nature of [[essence]]; not [[physical]].

Noun

1. A [[necessary]] [[ingredient]].
2. A [[fundamental]] ingredient.

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