essence

Definitions

1. A female given name of African-American usage.
2. The inherent nature of a thing or idea.
   countable, uncountable
3. gist
4. The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory.
   countable, uncountable
5. By nature; essentially: He is in essence a reclusive sort.
6. Constituent substance.
   countable, uncountable
7. Of the greatest importance; crucial: Time is of the essence.
8. A being; especially, a purely spiritual being.
   countable, uncountable
9. esencia, cualidad indispensable.
10. A significant feature of something.
    countable, uncountable
11. The intrinsic or indispensable quality or qualities that serve to characterize or identify something: The essence of democracy is the freedom to choose.
12. The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through an extraction or distillation process.
    countable, uncountable
13. The most important part or aspect of something: The essence of her argument is that the policy is wrongheaded.
14. An extract or concentrate obtained from a plant or other matter used for flavouring, or as a restorative.
    countable, uncountable
15. An extract that has the fundamental properties of a substance in concentrated form.
16. Fragrance, a perfume.
    countable, uncountable
17. One that has or shows an abundance of a quality as if highly concentrated: a neighbor who is the essence of hospitality.
18. Something that exists, especially a spiritual or incorporeal entity.
19. the characteristic or intrinsic feature of a thing, which determines its identity; fundamental nature
20. the most distinctive element of a thing: the essence of a problem.

Equivalents

46 more languages

العربيةالجوهربيضةجوهرخاصةخالصخلاصةروحصميمطبيعةعطركونماهيةهويةوجه+ 11 more

Azərbaycan dilicövhərmahiyyət

Беларускаясутнасць

Българскиароматесенцияпарфюмсъщество+ 1 more

Bosanskibístvobitbitnostekstraktesencijajezgrajezgrokoncentratnektarsržsukussuštinateraštežišteаромабитбитностекстрактесенцијајезграјезгроконцентратпарфемсржсуштинатежиште+ 23 more

Catalàbessó

Češtinaesencepodstata

Cymraegrhinrhinflas

Danskessenskoncentrat

Ελληνικάαπόσταγμαζουμίουσία

Esperantoesenco

فارسیجوهر

Suomiainesosaesanssihenkiolentoolemuspääsisältöperusolemustiivistetuntomerkkituoksu+ 6 more

Gaeilgegarr

Galegocelmecernaentrañaesencianaturanatureza+ 3 more

עבריתבושםמהותניחוחנשמהעצםתמצית+ 3 more

हिन्दीअरक़अर्क़ज़ातजौहरतत्त्वनिचोड़फुरेरीरससत्त्व+ 6 more

Hrvatskibístvobitbitnostekstraktesencijajezgrajezgrokoncentratnektarsržsukussuštinateraštežišteаромабитбитностекстрактесенцијајезграјезгроконцентратпарфемсржсуштинатежиште+ 23 more

Magyarkivonatlényeg

Հայերենէություն

Bahasa Indonesiabiangesensihakikatintiinti saripatiteras+ 4 more

Italianoessenza

日本語実実質心本質極意精素花要義+ 6 more

ქართულიარსიდედაარსირაობა

Қазақ тілімазмұнмаңызмән

한국어꽃나름본본질실질정액+ 3 more

Kurdîesansesasnatûrnektarparfûmteraşzat+ 4 more

Latinaensessentiausia

Latviešubūtībakodols

Te Reo Māorihautino

Македонскиаромаекстрактконцентратпарфемсуштина+ 2 more

Монголмөн чанар

Maltiessenza

Nederlandsaftrekselessenceessentieparfumwezen+ 2 more

Polskiekstraktesencjaistotanektar+ 1 more

Portuguêsessênciafragrância

Русскийароматва́жная черта́концентратсутьсуществосущностьэкстрактэссе́нция+ 5 more

Slovenčinaesencia

Slovenščinabistvo

Српскиbístvobitbitnostekstraktesencijajezgrajezgrokoncentratnektarsržsukussuštinateraštežišteаромабитбитностекстрактесенцијајезграјезгроконцентратпарфемсржсуштинатежиште+ 23 more

Svenskaandemeningessens

ไทยความนัยน้ำสารเรื่อง+ 2 more

TürkçeCevheresansesasmahiyetzat+ 2 more

Українськаєствозмістсутністьсуть+ 1 more

O'zbekchamohiyat

Tiếng Việtbản chấtcốt lõicốt tuỷkết tinhthực chấttinh hoatinh tuý精質+ 6 more

Examples

“CHARITY is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands, ſays an old writer. Gifts and alms are the expreſſions, not the eſſence of this virtue.”

“They [the laws] are at present⟳, both in form⟳ and essence, the greatest curse that society labours under ; the scorn of the wicked, the consternation of the good, the refuge of those who violate⟳, and the ruin of those who appeal to them.”

“The essence of Addison’s humour is irony.”

“It may be that a free society as we have⟳ known it carries in itself the forces of its own⟳ destruction, that once freedom has been achieved it is taken for granted and ceases to be valued, and that the free growth of ideas which is the essence of a free society will bring⟳ about the destruction of the foundations on which it depends.”

“For Spirits when they pleaſe / Can either Sex aſſume, or both ; ſo ſoft / And uncompounded is their Eſſence pure, / Not ti’d or manacl’d with joynt or limb, / Nor founded on the brittle ſtrength of bones, / Like⟳ cumbrous fleſh[…]”

“And put⟳ to proof his high Supremacy, / Whether upheld by ſtrength, or Chance, or Fate, / Too well I ſee and rue the dire event, / That with ſad overthrow⟳ and foul defeat⟳ / Hath loſt us Heav’n, and all this mighty Hoſt / In horrible deſtruction laid thus low, / As far as Gods and Heav’nly Eſſences / Can Periſh.”

“He [Gottfried Wolfgang] had been indulging in fanciful speculations on spiritual essences, until, like⟳ Swedenborg, he had an ideal world of his own⟳ around him.”

“essence of Jojoba”

“vanilla essence”

“She bathed the face⟳ of the sleeper with some essence, raised her in her arms, and called upon her name⟳.”

“There was no one to cook⟳ the necessary food that the invalids required to pick⟳ up their strength; no fowls to be bought, to make⟳ into the essence that is so generally given to fever patients wherever I have⟳ been since.”

“Our humbler province is to tend⟳ the Fair, / Not a leſs pleaſing, tho’ leſs glorious care ; / To ſave the powder from too rude a gale, / Nor let⟳ th’ impriſon’d eſſences exhale[…]”

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