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English
Noun
indispensability (countable and uncountable, plural indispensabilities)
- The characteristic of being indispensable.
1869, Charles Dickens, chapter 11, in The Uncommercial Traveller:In thinly-peopled spots, I have known brick-layers on tramp, coming up with bricklayers at work, to be so sensible of the indispensability of lookers-on, that they themselves have sat up in that capacity, and have been unable to subside into the acceptance of a proffered share in the job, for two or three days together.
- Synonym: indispensableness
- Something indispensable.
- 2016, Kubo and the Two Strings (movie)
- Beetle: Yes, I am certain I can be helpful. Indispensable!
- Monkey: In what way?
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- Beetle: Just tell me of our quest, and I will immediately demonstrate my numerous indispensabilities.
Derived terms
Translations
the characteristic of being indispensable