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Another word for sine qua non

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Noun

  1. Something indispensable

      1. (Law) A provision making the effect of a legal instrument contingent on the occurrence of an uncertain future event.
      2. Anything essential to the existence or occurrence of something else; prerequisite
      3. A state of physical fitness:
      1. Something necessary or fundamental; indispensable, inherent, or basic feature or principle
      1. The unfermented or fermenting juice expressed from fruit, especially grapes.
      2. A state of frenzy in animals, esp. in the male elephant, usually associated with sexual heat
      3. Something that is absolutely required or indispensable:
      1. Something that cannot be done without; necessary thing
      2. Great or imperative need
      3. Pressing or urgent need, especially that arising from poverty.
      1. Necessity or obligation created by some situation
      2. A lack of something useful, required, or desired
      3. A condition or situation in which something must be supplied in order for a certain condition to be maintained or a desired state to be achieved:
      1. A requirement which must be satisfied before taking a course of action.
      2. A condition that must exist or be established before something can occur or be considered; a prerequisite.
      1. Something that is prerequisite, as a course that is required prior to taking an advanced course.
      2. In education, a course or topic that must be completed before another course or topic can be started. May be colloquially referred to as a prereq.
      3. Something that must be gained in order to gain something else
      1. Something obligatory; a prerequisite.
      2. Something required; something obligatory or demanded, as a condition
      3. Something needed; necessity; need
      1. Something requisite
      2. Something that is indispensable; a requirement:
    See also:

    necessary

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Sentence Examples

  • This process is called conceptual synthesis, the possibility of which is a sine qua non for the exchange of information by speech and writing.

  • The conferences were opened at the close of July in the camp of the grand vizier, who was pressing Belgrade hard and demanded the surrender of the city as a sine qua non.

  • The improvement of the telescope was justly regarded as a sine qua non for the advancement of astronomical knowledge.

  • The only two points on which he departed from the orthodox Lutheran faith of his day were the requirement of regeneration as the sine qua non of the true theologian, and the expectation of the conversion of the Jews and the fall of Papacy as the prelude of the triumph of the church.

  • An intimate collaboration with England and France was a conditio sine qua non for Czechoslovakia.

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