Accident vs. Essence

Accidentnoun

An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences.

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Especially, a collision or similar unintended event that causes damage or death.

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Any chance event.

Accidentnoun

(uncountable) Chance.

Accidentnoun

Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential.

Accidentnoun

(euphemistic) An instance of incontinence.

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(euphemistic) An unintended pregnancy.

Accidentnoun

A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.

Accidentnoun

(grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.

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(geology) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.

Accidentnoun

(heraldry) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

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(legal) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.

Accidentnoun

Appearance, manifestation.

Accidentnoun

Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.

Accidentnoun

A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.

Accidentnoun

A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

Accidentnoun

A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.

Accidentnoun

Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.

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Unusual appearance or effect.

Accidentnoun

a mishap; especially one causing injury or death

Accidentnoun

anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause

Accidentnoun

an unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury

Accidentnoun

a crash involving road or other vehicles

Accidentnoun

an incidence of incontinence by a child or animal

Accidentnoun

an event that happens by chance or that is without apparent or deliberate cause

Accidentnoun

the working of fortune; chance

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(in Aristotelian thought) a property of a thing which is not essential to its nature.

Accident

An accident is an unintended, normally unwanted event that was not directly caused by humans. The term accident implies that nobody should be blamed, but the event may have been caused by unrecognized or unaddressed risks.

Essencenoun

The inherent nature of a thing or idea.

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(philosophy) The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory.

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Constituent substance.

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A being; especially, a purely spiritual being.

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A significant feature of something.

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The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through a distillation process.

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An extract or concentrate obtained from a plant or other matter used for flavouring.

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Fragrance, a perfume.

Essencenoun

The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.

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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.

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Constituent substance.

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A being; esp., a purely spiritual being.

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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.

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Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume.

Essenceverb

To perfume; to scent.

Essencenoun

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

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

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the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

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a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor

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the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, which determines its character

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a property or group of properties of something without which it would not exist or be what it is

Essencenoun

an extract or concentrate obtained from a plant or other matter and used for flavouring or scent

Essence

Essence (Latin: essentia) is a polysemic term, used in philosophy and theology as a designation for the property or set of properties that make an entity or substance what it fundamentally is, and which it has by necessity, and without which it loses its identity. Essence is contrasted with accident: a property that the entity or substance has contingently, without which the substance can still retain its identity.