indispensablenessn.
The quality of being indispensable:
a. incapability of dispensation or of being set aside.
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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
1654 H. Hammond Of Fund. in Notion xii. §2 Of Indispensableness of Oaths.
1712 G. Berkeley Passive Obed. §26. 35 The indispensibleness of the negative Precepts of the Law of Nature.
b. inability to be done without; absolute necessity.
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the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > [noun]
needOE
needfulnessa1400
necess?a1525
necessariness1552
requisiteness1566
necessitya1572
essence1605
essentialness1640
essentiality1646
necessitation1648
requirement1659
need-be1728
indispensability1793
indispensableness1833
indispensibleness1860
egence1865
requiredness1935
1833 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 7 Jan. A deep sense of the indispensableness of a holy life.
1882 Times 26 May 9 It is a tribute to the sense of his indispensableness at present to France.
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