Crossword-Solution: ESSENCE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Essence | n. | The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence. |
| Essence | n. | 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. |
| Essence | n. | Constituent substance. |
| Essence | n. | A being; esp., a purely spiritual being. |
| Essence | n. | 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; as, the essence of mint, and the like. |
| Essence | n. | Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume. |
| Essence | v. t. | To perfume; to scent. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ESSENCE | anagram | SENESCE |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with ESSENCE (5)
There was little sound, and none agreeable save the whir of the ship’s sewing machine at which Smee sat, ever industrious and obliging, the essence of the commonplace, pathetic Smee.
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; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condens’t, bright or obscure, Can execute their aerie purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfill.
Freshness was exhaled in an essence from the varied contours of bank and hollow, as if the earth breathed maiden breath, and the pleased birds were hymning to the scene.
Finally, all other difficulties being obviated, woman cannot take advantage of these preliminary reforms until she herself shall have undergone a still mightier change, in which, perhaps, the ethereal essence, wherein she has her truest life, will be found to have evaporated.
Only those who are convinced that such patterns and algorithms capture the complete essence of the self view this prospect with gusto.
Quotes with ESSENCE (3)
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 196 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).