essentiality

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This "thought experiment" enabled them to calculate the "keystoneness" or the relative essentiality of each species in each community.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2023

The actor is the most famous name in this "Bad News Bears"- style comedy from Bobby Farrelly, who directed him in 1996's "Kingpin," which lends an essentiality to his promotional efforts.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2023

In that brimmed another truth Rich Beem has carried through the 20 years that followed the one day: the essentiality of humor.

From Washington Post • May 19, 2022

The verdict relied on what’s known as the essentiality test — basically, whether a religious practice is or is not obligatory under that faith.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2022

By God, I mean a being absolutely infinite—that is, a substance consisting in infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality.

From Ethics by Spinoza, Benedictus de