Essential and Supervenient

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Essential adjective - Impossible to do without.

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Supervenient is an antonym for essential.

Supervenient adjective - Not being a vital part of or belonging to something.

Usage example: he painted his landscapes for self-fulfillment, regarding financial rewards as supervenient to his reason for doing them

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Essential is an antonym for supervenient.

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