WordNet
n. a prerequisite [syn: sine qua non]
Usage examples of "essential condition".
The classical exorcists, on the contrary, for all their learning, were careless about this essential condition.
It seems to me as if this refers to the ascetic life, commonly considered as an essential condition of participation in these mysteries.
If parody alone can adequately render the reality of our times, only irony offers us the freedom and detachment that are the essential condition of responsible analysis and action.
My essential condition for admiring, pitying, loving, and endlessly studying and writing about Jesus of Nazareth, as I have done, has been that I cannot believe in him.
However, I choose to interpret our essential condition in a different light than do you.
Our essential condition is that we retain some overt standing—.
One essential condition was excellent sight, and that I possessed to perfection.
Our essential condition is that we retain some overt standing—.
With his cassock with darned edges, his cracked shoes, and the harsh hands with nails that were like singed horn, at that instant his essential condition prevailed: he was an extremely poor man.