essential vs non-gradable

essential

adj
  • Having the nature of essence; not physical. 

  • Necessary. 

  • 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. 

  • Very important; of high importance. 

  • 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. 

noun
  • A necessary ingredient. 

  • A fundamental ingredient. 

non-gradable

adj
  • (of an adjective) Describing a quality that cannot normally be varied because it is extreme (e.g. freezing), absolute (e.g. dead), or classification (e.g. nuclear). 

  • That cannot be graded. 

noun
  • Any adjective that is not gradable. 

How often have the words essential and non-gradable occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )