essence
IPA: ˈɛsʌns
noun
- The inherent nature of a thing or idea.
- (philosophy) The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory.
- Constituent substance.
- A being; especially, a purely spiritual being.
- A significant feature of something.
- The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through a distillation process.
- An extract or concentrate obtained from a plant or other matter used for flavouring, or as a restorative.
- Fragrance, a perfume.
- A female given name of African-American usage.
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Examples of "essence" in Sentences
- This is the essence of morality.
- This is the essence of Pantheism.
- That is the essence of liberalism.
- That was the essence of the debate.
- This is the essence of egocentrism.
- Austerity is the essence of elegance.
- As such the language is of the essence of the argument.
- “Amalek,” in essence, is Hebrew for “existential threat.”
- These gems are the essence and quintessence of each element.
- RE: “Amalek,” in essence, is Hebrew for “existential threat.”
- Plot, in essence, is the board, or frame, for your story puzzle pieces.
- The aroma of the afternoon family meal was the essence of its existence.
- The essence of creatures is a potentiality with regard to their existence.
- This, in essence, is telling you when it is going to be and everything else.
- So, in essence is Beck is telling us is that Playboy = good, Playgirl = Bad.
- 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.
- “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.”
- 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:
- 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 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™.
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