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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