INESSENTIALITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Not of basic importance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("inessentiality" is a kind of...):

unimportance (the quality of not being important or worthy of note)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inessentiality"):

dispensability; dispensableness (the quality possessed by something that you can get along without)

Antonym:

essentiality (basic importance)

Derivation:

inessential (not basic or fundamental)