indispensability.

The state of being essential for a relevant purpose and unable to be dispensed with.

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Words that belong together

• indispensability of a condition
• claimed indispensability

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The condition’s indispensability was challenged by a successful alternative procedure.

The report claimed indispensability without showing that substitutes had been considered.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: requirements and constraints, institutional organization, formal assessment, system properties. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis, institutional studies. Commonness: moderately common.