essentialness

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“If I can’t convince you about the essentialness of wrestling with questions of democracy and authoritarianism today, when can I?” said co-editor Will Dobson.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2022

As quickly as we're learning about the essentialness of these systems, though, we're also actively destroying them with a variety of unsustainable practices.

From Salon • Jul. 1, 2021

“It is the essentialness of oneself, the psyche, the fragment of unity. Male and female are sex, masculine and feminine are gender, and though the conceptions obviously overlap, they are far from synonymous.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2020

“Each of the books is a meditation on the essentialness of humans,” Mr. Cooper said.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2017

We now come to consider the present state of our knowledge on the essentialness of the ash or mineral portion of the plant.

From Manures and the principles of manuring by Aikman, Charles Morton