Fundamental vs. Essential — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fundamental and Essential
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Fundamental
Of or relating to the foundation or base; elementary
The fundamental laws of the universe.
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).
Fundamental
Forming or serving as an essential component of a system or structure; central
An example that was fundamental to the argument.
Essential
Fundamentally important or necessary
Essential ingredients.
Fundamental
Of great significance or entailing major change
A book that underwent fundamental revision.
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Essential
(Medicine) Of, relating to, or being a condition or a disease whose cause is unknown
Essential hypertension.
Fundamental
Of or relating to the lowest possible frequency or the lowest frequency component of a vibrating element, system, periodic wave, or quantity
A fundamental chord.
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.
Fundamental
(Music) Having the root in the bass
A fundamental chord.
Essential
Something fundamental.
Fundamental
Something that is an essential or necessary part of a system or object.
Essential
Something necessary or indispensable.
Fundamental
The lowest frequency of a periodically varying quantity or of a vibrating system.
Essential
Necessary.
Fundamental
A main or major principle, rule, law, etc. which serves as the foundation or basis of a system; an essential part
One of the fundamentals of linear algebra
Essential
Very important; of high importance.
Fundamental
(physics) The lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
Essential
(biology) Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
Fundamental
(music) The lowest partial of a complex tone.
Essential
Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.
Fundamental
Related to a foundation. base, or basis; serving as a foundation.
Essential
Really existing; existent.
Fundamental
Essential; extremely important
A fundamental truth;
A fundamental axiom;
A fundamental element;
Fundamental principle;
Fundamental law
A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans.
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
Fundamental
Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation.
The fundamental reasons of this war.
Some fundamental antithesis in nature.
Essential
(medicine) Idiopathic.
Essential blepharospasm
Fundamental
A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith.
Essential
Having the nature of essence; not physical.
Fundamental
The lowest tone of a harmonic series
Essential
A necessary ingredient.
Fundamental
Serving as an essential component;
A cardinal rule
The central cause of the problem
An example that was fundamental to the argument
Computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure
Essential
A fundamental ingredient.
Fundamental
Being or involving basic facts or principles;
The fundamental laws of the universe
A fundamental incompatibility between them
These rudimentary truths
Underlying principles
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.
Fundamental
Far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something;
The fundamental revolution in human values that has occurred
The book underwent fundamental changes
Committed the fundamental error of confusing spending with extravagance
Profound social changes
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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