indispensability

Questions about indispensability

What does indispensability mean?

indispensability means "the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without".

How many syllables are in indispensability?

indispensability has 7 syllables: in-di-spen-sa-bi-li-ty. The stress falls on "bi".

What is another word for indispensability?

Close synonyms include indispensableness, vitalness. 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.

What is the opposite of indispensability?

The recorded antonyms are dispensability.

Is indispensability a common word?

indispensability 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.