The difference between Circumstantial and Essential

When used as nouns, circumstantial means something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance, whereas essential means a necessary ingredient.

When used as adjectives, circumstantial means pertaining to or dependent on circumstances, especially as opposed to essentials, whereas essential means necessary.

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  1. Circumstantial as an adjective:

    Pertaining to or dependent on circumstances, especially as opposed to essentials; incidental, not essential.

  2. Circumstantial as an adjective:

    Abounding with minor circumstances; in great detail; particular.

  3. Circumstantial as an adjective:

    Full of circumstance or pomp; ceremonial.

  4. Circumstantial as an adjective (legal):

    Suggesting guilt, but not proving it conclusively.

    Examples:

    "It is unlikely he will be convicted; the evidence against him is circumstantial at best."

  1. Circumstantial as a noun (chiefly, in the plural):

    Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance.

    Examples:

    "the circumstantials of religion"

  1. Essential as an adjective:

    Necessary.

  2. Essential as an adjective:

    Very important; of high importance.

  3. Essential as an adjective (biology):

    for survival but not by the organism, thus needing to be ingested

  4. Essential as an adjective:

    Being in the basic form; showing its essence.

    Examples:

    "Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred."

  5. Essential as an adjective:

    Really existing; existent.

  6. Essential as an adjective (of a [[lamination]] of a 3-[[manifold]]):

    Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.

    Examples:

    "rfex difference between 1 and 2"

  7. Essential as an adjective (medicine):

    Idiopathic.

  1. Essential as a noun:

    A necessary ingredient.

  2. Essential as a noun:

    A fundamental ingredient.

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