"indispensability" meaning in All languages combined

See indispensability on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: indispensabilities [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} indispensability (countable and uncountable, plural indispensabilities)
  1. The characteristic of being indispensable. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-indispensability-en-noun-Mk-Numjm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 62 38
  2. Something indispensable. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-indispensability-en-noun-KXKur-PF
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Quine-Putnam indispensability argument

Inflected forms

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