indispensabilityn.
The quality or fact of being indispensable.
1. Incapability of dispensation. (See indispensable adj. 1, 2.)
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > [noun] > binding quality or force > perpetually binding force
indispensabilitya1648
indispensableness1654
indissolubilitya1676
indispensibleness1681
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [noun] > capability of being revoked > incapability
irrevocability1613
irreversiblenessa1631
indispensabilitya1648
irrevocableness1649
unrepealableness1652
irrepealability1802
irreversibility1824
unrepealabilitya1834
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 373 The indispensability of the first Marriage.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. iii. Rule 11 §1 The indispensability of the natural laws, which are the main constituent parts of the evangelical.
2. Incapability of being dispensed with or done without. (See indispensable adj. 3.)
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the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > [noun]
needOE
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necess?a1525
necessariness1552
requisiteness1566
necessitya1572
essence1605
essentialness1640
essentiality1646
necessitation1648
requirement1659
need-be1728
indispensability1793
indispensableness1833
indispensibleness1860
egence1865
requiredness1935
1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) vi. 41 Of all earth's creatures, man alone rejoices in his indispensability.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. vii. 427 Preaching the divine right, as it is called, or absolute indispensability, of episcopacy.
1861 J. S. Mill Utilitarianism v. 81 Recognised indispensability becomes a moral necessity, analogous to physical.
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