What is the meaning of Essential?

Necessary.

Very important; of high importance.

Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.

Being in the basic form; showing its essence.

Really existing; existent.

Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.

Idiopathic.

Having the nature of essence; not physical.

A necessary ingredient.

A fundamental ingredient.

Source: wiktionary.org