Essence another word for

  • aspect
  • basis
  • bottom line
  • character
  • core
  • crux
  • element
  • lifeblood
  • meaning
  • nature
  • principle
  • quality
  • reality
  • root
  • soul
  • spirit
  • structure
  • substance
  • 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
  • be-all and end-all
  • chief constituent
  • essentia
  • main idea
  • name of game
  • virtuality
  • scent
  • balm
  • cologne
  • drug
  • effusion
  • elixir
  • extract
  • fragrance
  • juice
  • liquor
  • perfume
  • potion
  • spirits
  • tincture

On this page you’ll find 171 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to essence, such as: aspect, basis, bottom line, character, core, and crux.

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WORDS RELATED TO ESSENCE

  • authority
  • backbone
  • basis
  • chief constituent
  • core
  • essence
  • essential
  • evidence
  • foundation
  • fundamental
  • groundwork
  • heart
  • important part
  • infrastructure
  • key
  • origin
  • primary element
  • principal
  • principle
  • root
  • source
  • underpinning
  • antecedent
  • assumption
  • authority
  • axiom
  • backbone
  • background
  • backing
  • base
  • bedrock
  • cause
  • center
  • chief ingredient
  • core
  • crux
  • data
  • dictum
  • essence
  • essential
  • evidence
  • explanation
  • footing
  • fundamental
  • hard fact
  • heart
  • infrastructure
  • justification
  • keynote
  • keystone
  • law
  • nexus
  • nucleus
  • postulate
  • premise
  • presumption
  • presupposition
  • principal element
  • principle
  • proof
  • reason
  • root
  • rudiment
  • sanction
  • security
  • source
  • substratum
  • support
  • theorem
  • theory
  • underpinning
  • warrant
  • character
  • entity
  • essence
  • essentia
  • essentiality
  • individuality
  • marrow
  • personality
  • quintessence
  • self
  • soul
  • spirit
  • substance
  • texture
  • approach
  • attack
  • broad view
  • essence
  • idea
  • master plan
  • overall view
  • picture
  • plan of attack
  • assembly
  • basis
  • bed
  • chassis
  • core
  • corpus
  • crux
  • essence
  • frame
  • fuselage
  • gist
  • gravamen
  • groundwork
  • hull
  • main part
  • majority
  • mass
  • material
  • matter
  • pith
  • skeleton
  • staple
  • substance
  • substructure
  • sum
  • tenor
  • total
  • trunk
  • whole
  • basis
  • bottom line
  • cause
  • essence
  • essentiality
  • ground
  • heart
  • mainspring
  • marrow
  • origin
  • pith
  • principle
  • quintessence
  • root
  • soul
  • source
  • stuff
  • substance
  • virtuality

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essence

noun

Definition of essencenext

1

as in nature

the quality or qualities that make a thing what it is

the belief that power ultimately rests with the people is the very essence of democracy

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  • nature

  • substance

  • soul

  • quintessence

  • manifestation

  • essentiality

  • being

  • core

  • heart

  • aspect

  • quiddity

  • spirit

  • stuff

  • attribute

  • name of the game

  • property

  • center

  • incarnation

  • feature

  • personification

  • kernel

  • pith

  • marrow

  • gist

  • epitome

  • embodiment

  • keynote

  • seat

  • alpha and omega

  • nub

2

as in core

the central part or aspect of something under consideration

presented the essence of weeks of testimony in a 20-minute appeal to the jury

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  • core

  • heart

  • root

  • kernel

  • point

  • gist

  • sum

  • crux

  • nucleus

  • bottom line

  • meat

  • centerpiece

  • pith

  • subject

  • nub

  • theme

  • substance

  • net

  • sum and substance

  • pivot

  • the long and short

  • tenor

  • the long and the short

  • course

  • keynote

  • content

  • bull’seye

  • direction

  • body

  • proposition

  • nubbin

  • drift

  • thesis

  • meat and potatoes

  • hypothesis

  • purport

Phrases Containing essence

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What is another word for essence?

1184 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ˈɛsəns], [ ˈɛsəns], [ ˈɛ_s_ə_n_s]

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  • Table of Contents

    • adj.

      Other relevant words: (adjective)

      • property,
      • subject.
    • n.

      • binder,
      • vein,
      • principle,
      • structure,
      • character,
      • alkaloid,
      • germ,
      • filler,
      • backbone,
      • reality,
      • quintessence,
      • grain.

      • concentrate,
      • burning issue/question,
      • liquor,
      • feature,
      • elixir,
      • element,
      • staple,
      • ammonia,
      • key,
      • tincture,
      • potion,
      • alcohol,
      • concern.

      • surface.

      • be,
      • stuff.

      base (noun)

      • infra structure,
      • chief constituents,
      • primary elements,
      • infra structures,
      • under pinning,
      • infra-structures,
      • important parts,
      • under-pinning.

      basis (noun)

      • ex-planations,
      • pre supposition,
      • pre mise,
      • sub-stratums,
      • ex planations,
      • pre suppositions,
      • principal elements,
      • chief ingredients,
      • ex-planation,
      • pre-mise,
      • sub-strata,
      • pre mises,
      • sub strata,
      • pre-suppositions,
      • sub stratums,
      • ex planation,
      • sub-stratum,
      • pre-mises,
      • sub stratum,
      • pre-supposition.

      being (noun)

      • sub stances,
      • sub-stance,
      • sub stance,
      • sub-stances,
      • essentias.

      big picture (noun)

      • broad views,
      • big-picture,
      • plan attack,
      • overall views.

      body (noun)

      • sub structures,
      • sub-structure,
      • sub structure,
      • sub-structures,
      • main parts.

      bottom (noun)

      • Virtuality,
      • mainsprings,
      • mainspring.

      bottom line (noun)

      • in-come,
      • what it’s about,
      • de-terminations,
      • whole stories,
      • in-comes,
      • final decisions,
      • sum substances,
      • nuts bolts,
      • pro fit,
      • what it’s abouts,
      • what it about,
      • de-termination,
      • de termination,
      • what its all about,
      • in come,
      • pro-fits,
      • what its about,
      • pro fits,
      • what it all abouts,
      • main ideas,
      • what it abouts,
      • what it’s all abouts,
      • what it all about,
      • main things,
      • sum and substances,
      • what its abouts,
      • de terminations,
      • sum substance,
      • what its all abouts,
      • in comes.

      burden (noun)

      • burden.

      caliber (noun)

      • habilitations,
      • worthinesses.

      center (noun)

      • bull’seye,
      • radial points,
      • equidistances,
      • bulls eye,
      • middle road,
      • in side,
      • in sides,
      • bull-eye,
      • intermediacies,
      • inter-mediacies,
      • inter mediacies,
      • bulleye,
      • inter-mediacy,
      • Centrums,
      • bullseye,
      • middle the road,
      • in-side,
      • bull eye,
      • cynosures,
      • inter mediacy,
      • omphaloses,
      • Centrioles,
      • middle of road.

      characteristic (noun)

      • dis positions,
      • dis position,
      • dis-positions,
      • dis-position.

      cognition (noun)

      • gist,
      • heart,
      • centre,
      • kernel,
      • marrow,
      • substance,
      • essence,
      • inwardness,
      • heart and soul.

      compendium (noun)

      • over-view,
      • sylloges,
      • over views,
      • over-views,
      • over view.

      condensation (noun)

      • boildowns.

      connotation (noun)

      • co-loring,
      • under-tones,
      • over-tones,
      • under-tone,
      • co-lorings,
      • co loring,
      • over tones,
      • over tone,
      • co lorings,
      • under tones,
      • under tone,
      • over-tone.

      constitution (noun)

      • de signs,
      • de sign,
      • de-signs,
      • de-sign.

      content (noun)

      • content.

      contents (noun)

      • filling.

      core (noun)

      • up shots,
      • up shot,
      • up-shots,
      • up-shot.

      crux (noun)

      • decisive points.

      distillate, concentrate (noun)

      • effusion,
      • fragrance,
      • cologne,
      • spirits,
      • balm.

      drug (noun)

      • medicament,
      • biologics,
      • pharmaceutics,
      • medicinals,
      • pharmaceutic,
      • biologic,
      • tonic.

      effect (noun)

      • imprint,
      • efficacies,
      • efficacy.

      entity (noun)

      • subsistence,
      • quiddity,
      • integrals,
      • Quiddities.

      epitome (noun)

      • re presentations,
      • re-presentations,
      • re presentation.

      essential (noun)

      • part parcel,
      • pre requisite,
      • where ats,
      • where at,
      • pre conditions,
      • pre requisites,
      • fire and ices,
      • where one ats,
      • pre-condition,
      • pre condition,
      • where one at,
      • fire ices,
      • where ones ats,
      • where one’s ats,
      • where ones at,
      • fire ice.

      existence (noun)

      • hand one is dealt,
      • lifing,
      • world,
      • the big game,
      • big game.

      • distillate,
      • distillates,
      • decoctions,
      • elicitations,
      • elicitation,
      • decoction,
      • cuttings.

      fiber (noun)

      • fabrics.

      flavor (noun)

      • saltiness,
      • astringency,
      • astringencies,
      • spiciness,
      • pungency,
      • pungencies,
      • sapidity,
      • tartness,
      • sourness,
      • Sweetness.

      focus (noun)

      • crossing,
      • funnel,
      • lure,
      • lodestar,
      • forum,
      • gathering,
      • asymptote,
      • nucleus,
      • intersection,
      • focus,
      • magnet,
      • bottleneck,
      • rendezvous,
      • plenum,
      • rally,
      • axle.

      fragrance (noun)

      • bouquet,
      • cachet,
      • breath,
      • musk,
      • redolence,
      • aroma.

      fundamentally (noun)

      • basically,
      • essentially,
      • at bottom.

      gravamen (noun)

      • coal and ices,
      • coal and ice,
      • coal ices,
      • coal ice.

      heart, significance (noun)

      • attribute,
      • timber,
      • form,
      • be-all and end-all,
      • fiber,
      • aspect,
      • point.

      idea (noun)

      • Significancy,
      • believed abstraction,
      • hypothesis.

      incense (noun)

      • in cense,
      • in-cense,
      • in censes,
      • in-censes,
      • myrrhs,
      • frankincenses.

      in essence (noun)

      • substantially,
      • to all intents and purposes,
      • fundamentally.

      juice (noun)

      • aqua vitaes.

      keynote (noun)

      • basic ideas.

      kind (noun)

      • de nominations,
      • de nomination,
      • de-nominations,
      • de-nomination.

      life (noun)

      • organisms,
      • animateness,
      • living thing,
      • sentience,
      • substantialities,
      • symbiosis,
      • Symbioses,
      • living beings,
      • existence,
      • get up and go,
      • flesh and blood,
      • metabolisms,
      • metabolism,
      • mortal being,
      • living being,
      • vital spark,
      • high spirits,
      • wildlife,
      • substantiality,
      • viability,
      • woman,
      • living things.

      meaning (noun)

      • symbolization,
      • nature of beast,
      • signification.

      meat (noun)

      • shorts.

      meat and potatoes (noun)

      • meat potatoes,
      • meat-potatoes.

      midpoint (noun)

      • mid point,
      • mid points.

      name of the game (noun)

      • where it at,
      • where it ats,
      • name game,
      • where its ats,
      • name-game,
      • real issues,
      • name the game,
      • where its at,
      • where it’s ats.

      nature (noun)

      • out-look,
      • out-looks,
      • out looks,
      • name tune,
      • out look.

      necessity (noun)

      • ex-actions,
      • in-dispensabilities,
      • ex-action,
      • no alternatives,
      • undeniabilities,
      • no choices,
      • needfulnesses,
      • un-deniabilities,
      • life death,
      • un deniability,
      • ex actions,
      • in-dispensability,
      • indispensabilities,
      • in dispensabilities,
      • ex action,
      • in dispensability,
      • un-deniability,
      • un deniabilities.

      nitty-gritty (noun)

      • chief thing,
      • heart of the matter,
      • essential details,
      • nitty gritty,
      • the facts,
      • essential part,
      • chief part,
      • cold fact,
      • the name of the game,
      • important matter,
      • essential parts.

      of the essence (noun)

      • needed,
      • required.

      Other relevant words: (noun)

      • master plan,
      • mid-points,
      • incense,
      • eau de cologne,
      • lineament,
      • omphalos,
      • radix,
      • spiritual being,
      • necessity,
      • vivaciousness,
      • vital part,
      • piths,
      • burnt offerings,
      • boildown,
      • income,
      • groundwork,
      • entity,
      • ginger,
      • Pandect,
      • apercu,
      • nutshell,
      • Qualities,
      • aqua vitae,
      • predications,
      • broad view,
      • perfume,
      • characteristic,
      • substructure,
      • key points,
      • pre-requisite,
      • juice,
      • linchpin,
      • seasoner,
      • infra-structure,
      • rudiment,
      • Centralities,
      • roots,
      • constitution,
      • main part,
      • prospectus,
      • run-through,
      • pneuma,
      • spirit,
      • centrality,
      • unction,
      • nave,
      • noumenon,
      • whole story,
      • chrisms,
      • Radixes,
      • lineaments,
      • importance,
      • lovelies,
      • plan of attack,
      • staples,
      • sublimation,
      • polestar,
      • scent,
      • manual,
      • substructures,
      • inevitabilities,
      • Radices,
      • goblin,
      • naves,
      • hotbed,
      • indispensability,
      • cynosure,
      • predication,
      • infrastructure,
      • starting point,
      • hus,
      • physique,
      • gem,
      • summing-up,
      • sum,
      • herb,
      • HU,
      • polestars,
      • losses,
      • mainstreams,
      • fuselages,
      • pertness,
      • tenor,
      • desideratum,
      • spiritual beings,
      • wrap-up,
      • hard facts,
      • fundamental,
      • condensation,
      • requirement,
      • peach,
      • navels,
      • unguent,
      • keynote,
      • inevitability,
      • peppiness,
      • radicle,
      • midpoint,
      • thumbprints,
      • cream,
      • important part,
      • bottom-line,
      • Centra,
      • cerate,
      • Foci,
      • radial point,
      • way of it,
      • breviary,
      • ultimates,
      • whole,
      • needfulness,
      • caliber,
      • myrrh,
      • pharmaceutical,
      • sum and substance,
      • essential,
      • extract,
      • prerequisites,
      • medulla,
      • thumbprint,
      • rock bottom,
      • Apercus,
      • exemplar,
      • keynotes,
      • nubbins,
      • contents,
      • center,
      • pheromone,
      • mainstream,
      • subconscious,
      • name of tune,
      • sauce,
      • pith,
      • linchpins,
      • worthiness,
      • basic idea,
      • bottom,
      • fuselage,
      • nutshells,
      • keystones,
      • body,
      • herbs,
      • crux,
      • premise,
      • Peaches,
      • Intermediacy,
      • odor,
      • origins,
      • type,
      • vitals,
      • drug,
      • long and short of it,
      • mid-point,
      • hub,
      • demulcents,
      • bottom line,
      • Pheromones,
      • meaning,
      • hard fact,
      • typification,
      • chrism,
      • nubbin,
      • centrum,
      • pre-conditions,
      • Emulsions,
      • Gravamen,
      • quality,
      • vital parts,
      • Habilitation,
      • core,
      • key point,
      • principal element,
      • final decision,
      • basis,
      • pandects,
      • burnt offering,
      • Breviaries,
      • Necessaries,
      • breath of life,
      • essentiality,
      • Main Thing,
      • bull’s eye,
      • secret self,
      • chief constituent,
      • effect,
      • cosmetics,
      • Corey,
      • life or death,
      • main idea,
      • being,
      • no choice,
      • centriole,
      • compendium,
      • nub,
      • flavoring,
      • hotbeds,
      • meat,
      • where one’s at,
      • flavor,
      • main point,
      • rhizomes,
      • nature,
      • nuts and bolts,
      • essentia,
      • root,
      • Sapor,
      • moisturizer,
      • sprite,
      • sylloge,
      • name of game,
      • bulls-eye,
      • imperatives,
      • chief ingredient,
      • requirements,
      • decisive point,
      • summary,
      • main points,
      • attar,
      • what it’s all about,
      • idea,
      • pre-requisites,
      • where it’s at,
      • primary element,
      • kind,
      • cerates,
      • exemplifications,
      • exemplification,
      • life force,
      • frankincense,
      • undeniability,
      • no alternative,
      • Re-presentation,
      • real issue,
      • evidence,
      • attars,
      • Differentiae,
      • rhizome,
      • Desiderata,
      • paragon,
      • base,
      • typifications,
      • demulcent,
      • life,
      • fire and ice,
      • recap,
      • picture,
      • Equidistance,
      • recesses of heart,
      • overall view,
      • quicks,
      • meat and potatoes,
      • epitome,
      • sublimations,
      • part and parcel,
      • medication,
      • nitty-gritty,
      • big picture,
      • soul,
      • name of the game,
      • emulsion,
      • import,
      • differentia,
      • balminess,
      • connotation.

      perfume (noun)

      • balminesses,
      • eau de colognes.

      pith (noun)

      • medullae,
      • medullas,
      • coreys.

      quality (noun)

      • para-meter,
      • way it,
      • para meters,
      • para-meters,
      • para meter.

      recap (noun)

      • RE-CAP.

      root (noun)

      • be-ginning,
      • be ginning,
      • starting points,
      • radicles.

      run-through (noun)

      • runthrough.

      significancy (noun)

      • in tent,
      • in tents.

      soul (noun)

      • animating principles,
      • recesses heart,
      • noumena,
      • secret selves,
      • breath life,
      • animating principle,
      • pneumas.

      spirit (noun)

      • re solutions,
      • frame mind,
      • re-solution,
      • re solve,
      • re-solutions,
      • re solves,
      • re-solves,
      • re-solve.

      subconscious (noun)

      • subliminal,
      • submerged mind,
      • subliminal self,
      • underconsciousness,
      • undersense,
      • subconsciousness.

      summary (noun)

      • out-line,
      • long and short it,
      • re view,
      • re capitulations,
      • wrap-ups,
      • re views,
      • re-capitulation,
      • out-lines,
      • out line,
      • re-view,
      • re-hash,
      • re capitulation,
      • re-views,
      • long short it,
      • re hash,
      • wrapup,
      • re-capitulations,
      • out lines,
      • re hashes,
      • re-hashes,
      • wrapups,
      • long short of it,
      • wrap ups.

      summing-up (noun)

      • summingup.

      texture (noun)

      • intermixture,
      • intermixtures,
      • woof,
      • woofs,
      • tissue,
      • flexibility,
      • Tissues.

      type (noun)

      • re presentative,
      • re-presentative.

      warp and woof (noun)

      • warp woof,
      • warp-woof.
    • v.

      Other relevant words: (verb)

      • cooking,
      • perception.
    • Other synonyms:

      • essential oil,
      • sine qua non,
      • starter pack,
      • foundation,
      • the gist,
      • jute,
      • starter kit,
      • agar,
      • keystone,
      • chlorophyll,
      • byway,
      • balsam,
      • pollen,
      • focal point,
      • sacred cow,
      • skeleton,
      • cellulose,
      • ginseng,
      • fine print,
      • sugar,
      • linseed oil,
      • agenda,
      • sucrose,
      • nectar,
      • the nitty-gritty,
      • fulcrum,
      • crowning glory,
      • determinant,
      • prerequisite,
      • patchouli,
      • requisite,
      • the quick,
      • fundamentals,
      • sap,
      • high point,
      • basics,
      • nuance,
      • the leading edge,
      • thistledown,
      • hemlock,
      • belladonna,
      • need,
      • milk,
      • curare,
      • obsession,
      • flax,
      • necessary,
      • commodity,
      • passport,
      • big deal,
      • first principles,
      • treasure,
      • linseed,
      • Underpinning.

      • demand,
      • foundation stone,
      • tannin,
      • plank,
      • pivot,
      • prize,
      • religion,
      • resin,
      • imperative,
      • lavender,
      • building block,
      • pulp,
      • lifeblood,
      • cornerstone,
      • priority,
      • consideration,
      • driver.

      • oil,
      • resource,
      • provision,
      • supply,
      • texture,
      • cement.

      Other relevant words (noun):

      • partial vacuum,
      • middle,
      • colouring,
      • personality,
      • separation,
      • occurrence,
      • cast,
      • compound,
      • inner nature,
      • anima,
      • psyche,
      • event,
      • conclusion,
      • stub,
      • critical,
      • snapper,
      • upshot,
      • example,
      • infiltrate,
      • essentials,
      • representative,
      • bias,
      • inherence,
      • flower,
      • peculiarity,
      • stamp,
      • foundation-stone,
      • point in question,
      • faultless,
      • details,
      • personification,
      • bay oil,
      • intrinsic,
      • materially,
      • fibre,
      • artifact,
      • feel,
      • intellect,
      • objective,
      • incarnation,
      • heading,
      • point at issue,
      • in effect,
      • drift,
      • identity,
      • Savouriness,
      • vacuum,
      • absolute,
      • interior,
      • internal,
      • steam,
      • concept,
      • totality,
      • marking,
      • union,
      • ether,
      • presence,
      • medium,
      • attar of roses,
      • embalm,
      • warmheartedness,
      • coloring,
      • bosom,
      • colour,
      • implication,
      • mettle,
      • drive,
      • temperament,
      • toilet water,
      • substantial,
      • in essence,
      • motive,
      • ambrosia,
      • Intrinsicality,
      • spunk,
      • lavender oil,
      • mould,
      • strong,
      • Nubble,
      • excerpt,
      • leaven,
      • eye,
      • summation,
      • bench mark,
      • important thing,
      • warmness,
      • composition,
      • vital,
      • mass,
      • message,
      • chapter,
      • touch,
      • guts,
      • spice,
      • haecceity,
      • idealization,
      • extraction,
      • rose oil,
      • vital principle,
      • consequence,
      • nonpareil,
      • loading,
      • perfumery,
      • point of departure,
      • ticker,
      • notion,
      • product,
      • flavouring,
      • mind,
      • Life-blood,
      • stripe,
      • brainchild,
      • recapitulation,
      • grammatical meaning,
      • rubric,
      • better part,
      • amount of money,
      • blood,
      • relish,
      • ichor,
      • fruit,
      • outcome,
      • au fond,
      • seasoning,
      • case,
      • sense,
      • purpose,
      • bearing,
      • natural,
      • synopsis,
      • thurify,
      • coalition,
      • encumbrance,
      • inference,
      • complexion,
      • sum of money,
      • concentration,
      • gas,
      • aromatic,
      • center of life,
      • mall,
      • core group,
      • beau,
      • device,
      • cense,
      • good,
      • pump,
      • materialization,
      • coinage,
      • postulate,
      • pertinence,
      • shopping center,
      • fondness,
      • instill,
      • majority,
      • cardinal point,
      • affective meaning,
      • refinement,
      • lexical meaning,
      • object,
      • instil,
      • Inhesion,
      • range of meaning,
      • flatus,
      • significance,
      • child,
      • fluid,
      • time flies,
      • axiom,
      • main body,
      • reference,
      • actuality,
      • disposition,
      • permeate,
      • digest,
      • motif,
      • real meaning,
      • race against time,
      • style,
      • image,
      • result,
      • quintessential,
      • creature,
      • odour,
      • topic,
      • volatile oil,
      • reification,
      • tone,
      • salt,
      • tenderness,
      • aggregate,
      • affectionateness,
      • resume,
      • masterwork,
      • plurality,
      • relevance,
      • invention,
      • complete,
      • conspectus,
      • head,
      • intention,
      • problem,
      • aromatic gum,
      • of the essence,
      • pepper,
      • vegetable marrow,
      • aromatize,
      • real,
      • embodiment,
      • savour,
      • aromatic water,
      • impact,
      • final,
      • authentic,
      • Philia,
      • aim,
      • end product,
      • portent,
      • scope,
      • offspring,
      • unmixed,
      • strength,
      • join,
      • atmosphere,
      • material,
      • perfection,
      • purification,
      • ingredients,
      • mixture,
      • fume,
      • tendency,
      • entire,
      • ego,
      • affection,
      • pervade,
      • ESSE,
      • mannerism,
      • bone marrow,
      • climax,
      • direction,
      • extension,
      • sum total,
      • solid,
      • plaza,
      • run through,
      • Internality,
      • vapor,
      • pure,
      • trump card,
      • critical point,
      • hint,
      • pattern,
      • virtually,
      • tinge,
      • artefact,
      • prototype,
      • denotation,
      • savor,
      • crisis,
      • thesis,
      • air,
      • crucial,
      • derivation,
      • civet,
      • suggestion,
      • opera,
      • net,
      • model,
      • centrists,
      • tastiness,
      • reek,
      • hypostasis,
      • significant,
      • referent,
      • opus,
      • cloud,
      • subjectiveness,
      • best part,
      • impression,
      • issue,
      • Nerve Centre,
      • semantic field,
      • thrust,
      • nerve center,
      • Properties,
      • faithful,
      • vital spirit,
      • volatile alkali,
      • centerfield,
      • force,
      • amount,
      • distillation,
      • essentialness,
      • production,
      • standard,
      • means,
      • building blocks,
      • bulk,
      • principal part,
      • Ens,
      • thread,
      • feeling,
      • creation,
      • centerpiece,
      • nerve,
      • vigour,
      • tempus fugit,
      • generality,
      • attributes,
      • value,
      • materiality,
      • manufacture,
      • consciousness,
      • mold,
      • saturate,
      • matter in hand,
      • acme,
      • domestic,
      • masterpiece,
      • fumigate,
      • crowning achievement,
      • tang,
      • infuse,
      • inner reality,
      • thorough,
      • total,
      • indispensable,
      • taste,
      • subject of thought,
      • summing up,
      • load,
      • make up,
      • center of attention,
      • unadulterated,
      • shopping mall,
      • features,
      • ambiance,
      • undertone,
      • ambience,
      • question,
      • handiwork,
      • genuine,
      • direct,
      • reason,
      • most,
      • intent,
      • incumbrance,
      • rundown,
      • concoction,
      • onus,
      • trace,
      • landmark,
      • inner,
      • work,
      • subject-matter,
      • heliotrope,
      • fabric,
      • ultimate,
      • archetype,
      • mark,
      • vitality,
      • prominent part,
      • main ingredient,
      • outgrowth,
      • Inbeing,
      • actual,
      • quid,
      • mintage,
      • warp and woof,
      • penetrate,
      • focus of attention,
      • Opuscule,
      • turning point,
      • spoor,
      • summit,
      • milestone,
      • matter,
      • text,
      • power,
      • outline,
      • relation,
      • ambergris,
      • quirk,
      • overtone,
      • particularity,
      • important,
      • origination,
      • intension,
      • marrow squash,
      • self,
      • major part,
      • survey,
      • piquancy,
      • makings,
      • effluvium,
      • flavour,
      • pinnacle,
      • purport,
      • zest,
      • infusion,
      • ideal,
      • theme,
      • palate,
      • fixative.

    How to use «Essence» in context?

    The essence of life is the basis of all we do, see, or feel. It is the unseen force or power that makes all things happen and allows for the continuation of existence. It has been said that life is a quest for the meaning of our existence, and in some ways, the search for the essence of life is a never-ending journey.

    While there is no one answer or definition to what essence truly is, there are many common threads that connect people across cultures and religions in pursuit of understanding it. In some ways, people may view essence as a metaphor for theUnknown or the mysteronial.

    Paraphrases for Essence:

    Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
    • Equivalence

      • Noun, singular or mass
        nub.
    • Reverse Entailment

      • Noun, singular or mass
        quintessence.
    • Independent

      • Proper noun, singular
        Cas.
      • Noun, singular or mass
        data, importance, principle, reality, sense, Rests, principles, dictates, highlights.
    • Other Related

      • Proper noun, singular
        substance, substances.
      • Noun, singular or mass
        basis, centrality, centrepiece, connotation, content, core, cornerstone, crucial, crux, essential, fact, gist, heart, key, lifeblood, meaning, nucleus, nutshell, root, significance, soul, substance, thrust.

    Homophones for Essence:

    • echinococcus, echoing, economise, easing, Equus Hemionus, exchange, equanimous, economic, e. e. cummings, Equus Kiang, exogamous, echinacea, ecumenic, eugenics, ecchymosis, Eysenck, Euxine Sea, easiness, Eugene Sue, Eugene Ionesco, ezo-yama-hagi, exogenous, egomaniac, eggnog, echeneis, echinococcosis, exogamic, Equus Asinus, easygoing, economize, equinox, exogenic, easy going, exigency, eugenic, economics, echinus.

    Hypernym for Essence:

    • n.

      • cognition
        hypostasis, quintessence, quiddity, stuff, bare bones, haecceity.

    Hyponym for Essence:

    • n.

      • cognition
        content, mental object, cognitive content.
      • substance
        substance.

    Princeton’s WordNetRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

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

      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»

      Synonyms:
      affection, summation, warmness, sum of money, sum total, means, affectionateness, substance, center of attention, center field, content, nucleus, plaza, meaning, meat, bone marrow, centre, burden, stub, center, tenderness, snapper, core, totality, marrow, heart and soul, sum, fondness, total, nerve, core group, internality, marrow squash, nerve center, shopping center, aggregate, nub, join, kernel, nitty-gritty, union, spirit, centerfield, gist, warmheartedness, nerve centre, inwardness, centre of attention, pith, heart, shopping mall, nubble, bosom, mall, ticker, message, pump, magnetic core, effect, mettle, shopping centre, perfume, spunk, philia, subject matter, amount of money, midpoint, vegetable marrow, eye, amount, middle

    2. essencenoun

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

      Synonyms:
      nitty-gritty, meat, core, inwardness, sum, gist, heart and soul, effect, substance, nub, center, burden, centre, kernel, heart, perfume, marrow, pith

    3. effect, essence, burden, core, gistnoun

      the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

      Synonyms:
      substance, loading, perfume, meat, centre, burden, center, consequence, core, marrow, load, sum, impression, event, heart and soul, core group, upshot, effect, nub, kernel, nitty-gritty, gist, inwardness, pith, heart, nucleus, onus, magnetic core, outcome, encumbrance, issue, force, incumbrance, result

    4. perfume, essencenoun

      a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor

      Synonyms:
      nitty-gritty, meat, core, sum, gist, heart and soul, effect, substance, nub, center, burden, inwardness, kernel, fragrance, aroma, heart, perfume, scent, centre, marrow, pith

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    Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

    1. essencenoun

      Synonyms:
      nature, substance, quintessence, essential part

    2. essencenoun

      Synonyms:
      extract, volatile part, rectified portion

    3. essencenoun

      Synonyms:
      odor, perfume, scent

    4. essencenoun

      Synonyms:
      being, existence, entity

    5. essenceverb

      Synonyms:
      perfume, scent, odor

    PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 1 vote

    1. List of paraphrases for «essence»:

      substance, gasoline, quintessence, petrol, gist, heart, crux, nature, gas, core, essential, thrust, spirit, fuel

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    How to use essence in a sentence?

    1. Donald Trump:

      It’s ridiculous that the government has to be put in a position where if they have information about a possible attack, we waste a second because that could be the second that kills somebody, the reality is time is of the essence when you’re talking about the possibility of a terrorist attack.

    2. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

      Love is the essence of life.
      Love is the universal language of all creation.
      Love is the eternal desire.
      Love is the life’s flower with fragrance to share.
      So feel the longing for love and being beloved.

    3. Aleister Crowley:

      The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become «one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions»: a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have — Greatness.

    4. Vic Berger:

      I like to amplify what’s already there and focus on that, like the weird facial expressions and the people behind them. I boil down the candidates almost to their essence, in a way. You can watch a five-minute video of mine and not learn anything about what their policy is. But I think you do get an understanding of what kind of person they might be.

    5. Lucinda Williams:

      Of course, I’m older now. I’m in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for ‘Car Wheels’ or ‘Essence’ or whatever. Different things were going on.


    Translations for essence

    From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary

    • جَوهَر, جوهرArabic
    • аромат, екстракт, есенция, парфюм, същност, същинаBulgarian
    • bessóCatalan, Valencian
    • esenceCzech
    • essens, koncentratDanish
    • WesenGerman
    • esencoEsperanto
    • extracto, esenciaSpanish
    • جوهرPersian
    • villakoiran ydin, olemus, esanssi, [[tärkeä]] [[piirre]], perusolemus, tuntomerkkiFinnish
    • essenceFrench
    • מהות, בושם, ניחוחHebrew
    • सारHindi
    • lényeg, eszencia, kivonatHungarian
    • էությունArmenian
    • essenzaItalian
    • 本質Japanese
    • სურნელებაGeorgian
    • 본질Korean
    • substantia, essentiaLatin
    • tinoMāori
    • essenzaMaltese
    • essence, essentie, wezen, aftreksel, parfumDutch
    • essensenNorwegian
    • istotaPolish
    • fragrância, essênciaPortuguese
    • суть, эссенция, существо, [[важный, аромат, экстракт, сущность, концентратRussian
    • суштина, есенција, бит, bit, esencija, suštinaSerbo-Croatian
    • esenca, bistvoSlovene
    • mchakatoSwahili
    • แก่นแท้Thai
    • сутністьUkrainian
    • תּוךYiddish
    • 本质Chinese

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