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Adjective: nonessential  `nó-ni'sen-shul
  1. Not of prime or central importance
    "nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry"
    - incidental
Noun: nonessential  `nó-ni'sen-shul
  1. Anything that is not essential
    "they discarded all their nonessentials"
    - inessential

Derived forms: nonessentials

See also: inessential, unessential

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non-Euclidean geometry
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