The difference between Essential and Existent

When used as nouns, essential means a necessary ingredient, whereas existent means a being or entity that exists independently.

When used as adjectives, essential means necessary, whereas existent means existing.

check bellow for the other definitions of Essential and Existent

  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.

  1. Existent as an adjective:

    existing; having life or being, current; occurring now

  1. Existent as a noun (archaic):

    a being or entity that exists independently

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