essentialness

“If I can’t convince you about the essentialness of wrestling with questions of democracy and authoritarianism today, when can I?” said co-editor Will Dobson.

As quickly as we're learning about the essentialness of these systems, though, we're also actively destroying them with a variety of unsustainable practices.

Distribution of the vaccine should seek to balance essentialness and vulnerability.

“It is the essentialness of oneself, the psyche, the fragment of unity. Male and female are sex, masculine and feminine are gender, and though the conceptions obviously overlap, they are far from synonymous.”

Elon Musk, SpaceX’s South African-born founder, has become a flash point in a civil rights crisis as well, this one over the inequities of essentialness laid bare by the novel coronavirus.