Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The intrinsic or indispensable quality or qualities that serve to characterize or identify something.
- noun The inherent, unchanging nature of a thing or class of things.
- noun The most important part or aspect of something.
- noun An extract that has the fundamental properties of a substance in concentrated form.
- noun Such an extract in a solution of alcohol.
- noun A perfume or scent.
- noun One that has or shows an abundance of a quality as if highly concentrated.
- noun Something that exists, especially a spiritual or incorporeal entity.
- idiom (in essence) By nature; essentially.
- idiom (of the essence) Of the greatest importance; crucial.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To perfume; scent.
- noun The French designation for oil of cajeput.
- noun The inward nature, true substance, or constitution of anything.
- noun Hence The distinctive characteristic; that which is expressed by the definition of any term: as, the essence of a miser's character is avarice.
- noun That part of anything which gives it its individual character or quality: as, this summary contains the essence of the book.
- noun Existence; being.
- noun An elementary ingredient or constituent; anything uncompounded: as, the fifth essence (that is, the fifth element in the philosophy of Aristotle, or the upper air, the other four being, in their order, earth, water, air, and fire). See
quintessence . - noun Anything of ethereal, pure, or heavenly substance; anything immaterial.
- noun Any kind of matter which, being an ingredient or a constituent of some better-known substance, gives it its peculiar character; an extract; especially, an oil distilled at a comparatively low temperature from a plant in which it already exists: as, essence of peppermint.
- noun Perfume; odor; scent; also, the volatile matter constituting perfume.
- noun Importance; moment; essentiality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To perfume; to scent.
- noun The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the
nominal essence . - noun The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as
real essence ); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts. - noun Constituent substance.
- noun A being; esp., a purely spiritual being.
- noun The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil.
- noun Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
inherent nature of a thing or idea. - noun A
significant feature of something. - noun The
concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through adistillation process. - noun
Fragrance , aperfume . - noun philosophy The true
nature of anything, notaccidental orillusory .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- noun any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted
- noun a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor
- noun the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The origins of this doctrine lie in Avicenna's account of radical contingency that considers the distinction between Necessary and contingent to lie in the simplicity of existence of the Necessary producing the complexity of the existence and essence of the contingent, where the contingent is an existent to whom accidents pertain bundled in what is known as their ˜essence™.
Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009
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It is claimed that a Monotheistic Pantheism, that is, the idea of _one essence_, not person, but _essence_, is to _unite_, or make one, the whole human family upon the scientific (sciolistic) base that man himself is one grand part of the grand all-pervading, impersonal essence.
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, June, 1880 Various
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What you want, in essence, is people to use an iPhones app to find the best places that sell two tin cans with a string tied between them.
Tricky Question LinkBlogging: Should Digital Drive Print? Art-Free Comics? » Comics Worth Reading 2010
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This, in essence, is telling you when it is going to be and everything else.
Barry Toll 2010
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“What you are saying, in essence, is that coaches should not be able to profit by making speeches to alumni groups, because they would make too much money.”
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What you're saying, in essence, is that human society is incapable of using facts or knowledge that cannot be personalized in order to effect change in a society. hob says:
The Unique, Experiential, Anecdotal "You" « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010
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Plot, in essence, is the board, or frame, for your story puzzle pieces.
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RE: “Amalek,” in essence, is Hebrew for “existential threat.”
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So, in essence is Beck is telling us is that Playboy = good, Playgirl = Bad.
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“Amalek,” in essence, is Hebrew for “existential threat.”
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