Sine Qua Non Definition

sĭnĭ kwä nŏn, nōn, sīnĭ, kwā
noun
An essential condition, qualification, etc.; indispensable thing; absolute prerequisite.
Webster's New World
Without which not. Something that is indispensable and upon which something else relies.
Webster's New World Law
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Noun

Singular:
sine qua non
Plural:
sine-qua-nons, sine-quibus-non

Origin of Sine Qua Non

  • Late Latin sine quā (causā) nōn without which (cause) not Latin sine without Latin quā feminine ablative of quī which Latin nōn not

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin sine qua non (“without which [cause] not").

    From Wiktionary

Sine Qua Non Sentence Examples

  • This process is called conceptual synthesis, the possibility of which is a sine qua non for the exchange of information by speech and writing.

  • The conferences were opened at the close of July in the camp of the grand vizier, who was pressing Belgrade hard and demanded the surrender of the city as a sine qua non.

  • The improvement of the telescope was justly regarded as a sine qua non for the advancement of astronomical knowledge.

  • The commissioners feared that, so long as Greek was a sine qua non at the universities, these schools would be cut off from direct connexion with the universities, while the universities would in some degree lose their control over a portion of the higher culture of the nation.

  • The only two points on which he departed from the orthodox Lutheran faith of his day were the requirement of regeneration as the sine qua non of the true theologian, and the expectation of the conversion of the Jews and the fall of Papacy as the prelude of the triumph of the church.

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