Nonessential in a sentence as a noun

I hate having dotfiles in ~/ for the same reason why I hate "My Documents" in Windows: because it's supposed to be my space that I organize, not a generic dumping ground for your config files, brand-named folders, or other nonessential garbage. I want my space to be mine.

Nonessential in a sentence as an adjective

To finance this enterprise, he advocated scaling down the military budget, enacting a value added tax on nonessential goods and services and redirecting federal and state funds to provide a "social wage" in lieu of welfare payments to third-sector workers. He was mostly laughed at.

Nonessential definitions

noun

anything that is not essential; "they discarded all their inessentials"

See also: inessential

adjective

not of prime or central importance; "nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry"- Pubs.MLA

See also: incidental