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

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

Critics say the essentiality test gives courts broad authority over theological matters where they have little expertise and where clergy would be more appropriate arbiters of faith.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2022

Is there a franchise other than the Marvel Cinematic Universe that's as skilled at lending its most mediocre titles an air of essentiality by hiring A-list talent?

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2022

The sin or the defect cannot be unmixed; its very originality, its essentiality, must line it, though it be the blackest of clouds, with some silver.

From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Lloyd, Alfred H.