indispensability
noun1
The characteristic of being indispensable.
- 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.1869, Charles Dickens, chapter 11, in The Uncommercial Traveller:
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Something indispensable.
- Beetle: Yes, I am certain I can be helpful. Indispensable! Monkey: In what way? [Beetle displays his ability with bow and arrow, firing multiple arrows on the same spot] […] Beetle: Just tell me of our quest, and I will immediately demonstrate my numerous indispensabilities.2016, Kubo and the Two Strings (movie)
- Derived terms
- Quine-Putnam indispensability argument