essential condition

1. 1.

   a prerequisite

   Synonymssine qua non

   Broaderprerequisite

Questions about essential condition

What does essential condition mean?

essential condition means "a prerequisite".

What is another word for essential condition?

Close synonyms include sine qua non. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is essential condition a common word?

essential condition is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.