essentiality
noun
essentiality is a noun meaning “The condition of being essential; a basic set of essential traits; being” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-S-S-E-N-T-I-A-L-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of essentiality is essentialities.
What does essentiality mean?
noun
- 1
The condition of being essential; a basic set of essential traits; being
- 2
An essential thing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of essentiality
- essentialities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is essentiality?
Essentiality appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Essentiality in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense being essential:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | essentialité |
| Portuguese | essencialidade |
| Spanish | esencialidad |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.