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Essential vs. Desirable — What's the Difference?

Essential vs. Desirable — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Essential and Desirable

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Essential

Constituting or being part of the nature or essence of something; inherent
"In that era of general good will ... few Americans doubted the essential goodness of their society" (David Halberstam).

Desirable

Wished for as being an attractive, useful, or necessary course of action
It is desirable to check that nothing has been forgotten

Essential

Fundamentally important or necessary
Essential ingredients.

Desirable

A desirable person or thing
The store sells various desirables

Essential

(Medicine) Of, relating to, or being a condition or a disease whose cause is unknown
Essential hypertension.
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Desirable

Worth having or seeking, as by being useful, advantageous, or pleasing
A desirable job in the film industry.
A home computer with many desirable features.

Essential

(Biochemistry) Being a substance that is required for normal functioning but cannot be synthesized by the body and therefore must be included in the diet
Essential amino acids.

Desirable

Worth doing or achieving; advisable
A desirable reform.
A desirable outcome.

Essential

Something fundamental.

Desirable

Arousing desire, especially sexual desire.

Essential

Something necessary or indispensable.

Desirable

A desirable person or thing.

Essential

Necessary.

Desirable

Worthy to be desired; pleasing; agreeable.
This applicant has almost all desirable properties.

Essential

Very important; of high importance.

Desirable

A thing that people want; something that is desirable.
There are plenty of desirables on display in the window.

Essential

(biology) Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.

Desirable

Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable.
All of them desirable young men.
As things desirable exciteDesire, and objects move the appetite.

Essential

Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.

Desirable

Worth having or seeking or achieving;
A desirable job
Computer with many desirable features
A desirable outcome

Essential

Really existing; existent.

Desirable

Worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse;
The parents found the girl suitable for their son

Essential

(geometry) 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.
Difference between 1 and 2

Essential

(medicine) Idiopathic.
Essential blepharospasm

Essential

Having the nature of essence; not physical.

Essential

A necessary ingredient.

Essential

A fundamental ingredient.

Essential

Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.
Majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness.

Essential

Hence, really existing; existent.
Is it true, that thou art but a name,And no essential thing?

Essential

Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.
Judgment's more essential to a generalThan courage.
How to live? - that is the essential question for us.

Essential

Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.

Essential

Necessary; indispensable; - said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.

Essential

Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.

Essential

Existence; being.

Essential

That which is essential; first or constituent principle; as, the essentials of religion.

Essential

Anything indispensable;
Food and shelter are necessities of life
The essentials of the good life
Allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions
A place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained

Essential

Absolutely necessary; vitally necessary;
Essential tools and materials
Funds essential to the completion of the project
An indispensable worker

Essential

Basic and fundamental;
The essential feature

Essential

Of the greatest importance;
The all-important subject of disarmament
Crucial information
In chess cool nerves are of the essence

Essential

Being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc;
Essential oil

Essential

Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right;
Substantive law

Essential

Absolutely required and not to be used up or sacrificed

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