Background
Background noun - The physical conditions or features that form the setting against which something is viewed.
Essential and background are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Essential" instead a noun "Background".
Essential
Essential noun - Something necessary, indispensable, or unavoidable.
Background and essential are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Background" instead a noun "Essential".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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The funny or meaningful background events and the Weirdness Censor are essential for the Inaction Video.
Source: Inaction Video - There is a small scale economy in the background, with some luxury goods produced and traded, but it's hardly essential to the setting.
Source: Artistic License Economics - Most of the time it not even essential information, just background setting material.
Source: RPGs Equal Combat
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