English word nonessential comes from English essential, English non-
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| essential | English (eng) | A fundamental ingredient.. A necessary ingredient. (biology) necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested. (medicine) Idiopathic.. (of a lamination of a 3-manifold) 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 [...] |
| non- | English (eng) | Used in the sense of not, to negate the meaning of the word to which it is prefixed. |
| nonessential | English (eng) | Something that is not essential. Not required; not essential. |