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essence
noun as in heart, significance
Strongest matches
aspect, basis, bottom line, character, core, crux, element, lifeblood, meaning, nature, principle, quality, reality, root, soul, spirit, structure, substance
Strong matches
attribute, backbone, base, being, bottom, burden, caliber, constitution, entity, essentiality, fiber, form, fundamentals, germ, grain, kernel, life, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, nucleus, pith, point, property, quiddity, quintessence, stuff, timber, vein
Weak matches
be-all and end-all, chief constituent, essentia, main idea, name of game, virtuality
Example Sentences
An illness or disability is something that a person has, not the essence of who they are.
“She’s about savoring the essence of the frame, the lens, specifically the light. She sees things in a humanistic way. She’s a storyteller, not a technician.”
So, in essence, today’s claims data are old.
For Mr. Lopatin, associations of timbre with history and memory are the essence of his art.
The bottle is the trap philosophers inadvertently create for themselves by abstracting concepts such as “knowledge,” “being” and “object” from their ordinary usage and analyzing them as though each has some kind of independent essence.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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