The difference between Essential and Indispensable
When used as nouns, essential means a necessary ingredient, whereas indispensable means a thing that is not dispensable.
When used as adjectives, essential means necessary, whereas indispensable means not admitting ecclesiastical dispensation.
check bellow for the other definitions of Essential and Indispensable
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Essential as an adjective:
Necessary.
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Essential as an adjective:
Very important; of high importance.
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Essential as an adjective (biology):
for survival but not by the organism, thus needing to be ingested
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Essential as an adjective:
Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
Examples:
"Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred."
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Essential as an adjective:
Really existing; existent.
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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"
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Essential as an adjective (medicine):
Idiopathic.
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Essential as a noun:
A necessary ingredient.
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Essential as a noun:
A fundamental ingredient.
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Indispensable as an adjective (ecclesiastical, obsolete):
Not admitting ecclesiastical dispensation; not subject to release or exemption; that cannot be allowed by bending the canonical rules.
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Indispensable as an adjective (of duties, rules etc.):
Unbendable, that cannot be set aside or ignored.
Examples:
"The law was moral and indispensable.'' -Bp. Burnet"
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Indispensable as an adjective:
Absolutely necessary or requisite; that one cannot do without.
Examples:
"An indispensable component of a heart-healthy diet."
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Indispensable as a noun:
A thing that is not dispensable; a necessity.
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Indispensable as a noun (in the plural, colloquial, dated):
Trousers.
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