indispensability

English[edit]

indispensability (countable and uncountable, plural indispensabilities)

The characteristic of being indispensable.
- 1869, Charles Dickens, chapter 11, in The Uncommercial Traveller:
  In thinly-peopled spots, I have known brick-layers on tramp, coming up with bricklayers at work, to be so sensible of the indispensability of lookers-on, that they themselves have sat up in that capacity, and have been unable to subside into the acceptance of a proffered share in the job, for two or three days together.
Something indispensable.
- 2016, Kubo and the Two Strings (movie)
  Beetle: Yes, I am certain I can be helpful. Indispensable!
  
  Monkey: In what way?
  
  [Beetle displays his ability with bow and arrow, firing multiple arrows on the same spot]
  
  […]
  
  Beetle: Just tell me of our quest, and I will immediately demonstrate my numerous indispensabilities.