Definition of essence

"essence" in the noun sense

1. kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty

the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

"the gist of the prosecutor's argument"

"the heart and soul of the Republican Party"

"the nub of the story"

2. essence

any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted

3. effect, essence, burden, core, gist

the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

4. perfume, essence

a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor

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Quotations for essence

Truth in its own essence cannot be
But good. [ Byron ]

Self-trust is the essence of heroism. [ Emerson ]

The essence of poetry is will and passion. [ Hazlitt ]

The divine essence itself is love and wisdom. [ Swedenborg ]

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. [ Mendelssohn ]

The essence or peculiarity of man is to comprehend a whole. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. [ Addison ]

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. [ Emerson ]

An index is the soul of a book; it is the key to its essence of thought. [ James Ellis ]

Sincerity, truth, faithfulness, come into the very essence of friendship. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Whatever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. [ Father Andre ]

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. [ John Adams ]

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence. [ Carlyle ]

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. [ Confucius ]

Logic is the essence of truth, and truth is the most powerful tyrant; and tyrants hate the truth. [ I. I. Kozlof ]

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. [ Samuel Johnson ]

He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident tomorrows. [ J. F. Clarke ]

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate. [ Stedman ]

He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity: for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice. [ Henry Taylor ]

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself. [ Shaftesbury ]

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image; not one painted on paper, but the living essence of the divine nature, which beams full of all goodness. [ Luther ]

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire. [ Carlyle ]

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower. [ Froude ]

Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence. [ Rollin ]

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that ever was or ever will be of godlike in this world, - the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men. [ Carlyle ]

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction. [ Dryden ]

The essence of humour is sensibility, warm, tender, fellow-feeling with all forms of existence; and unless seasoned and purified by humour, sensibility is apt to run wild, will readily corrupt into disease, falsehood, or, in one word, sentimentality. [ Carlyle ]

Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time. [ Emerson ]

Ridicule intrinsically is a small faculty; we may say, the smallest of all faculties that other men are at the pains to repay with any esteem. It is directly opposed to thought, to knowledge, properly so called; its nourishment and essence is denial, which hovers on the surface, while knowledge dwells far below. [ Carlyle ]

A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition. [ Joubert ]

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart; it is not contempt; its essence is love: it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. It is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. [ Carlyle ]

The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it - a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind. [ Sterne ]

Necessary or Essential? Necessary signifies not to be departed from, and is a general and an indefinite term. The essential contains that essence or property which cannot be omitted. It is necessary for men to die. Exercise is essential to the preservation of health. There is an essential difference between gold and silver. Here we could not properly use necessary for essential. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

essence in Scrabble®

The word essence is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters essence:

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Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word essence

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In essence

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essence in Words With Friends™

The word essence is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters essence:

ESSENCE
(98 = 63 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

essence

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word essence

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In essence

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Words within the letters of essence

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