Epitome vs. Quintessence
Epitomenoun
The embodiment or encapsulation of a class of items.
Epitomenoun
A representative example.
Epitomenoun
The height; the best.
Epitomenoun
A brief summary of a text.
Epitomenoun
A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement.
Epitomenoun
A compact or condensed representation of anything; something possessing conspicuously or to a high degree the qualities of a class.
Epitomenoun
a standard or typical example;
Epitomenoun
a brief abstract (as of an article or book)
Epitomenoun
a person or thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or type
Epitomenoun
a summary of a written work; an abstract.
Epitomenoun
a thing representing something else in miniature.
Epitome
An epitome (; Greek: ἐπιτομή, from ἐπιτέμνειν epitemnein meaning ) is a summary or miniature form, or an instance that represents a larger reality, also used as a synonym for embodiment. Epitomacy represents An abridgment differs from an epitome in that an abridgment is made of selected quotations of a larger work; no new writing is composed, as opposed to the epitome, which is an original summation of a work, at least in part.
Quintessencenoun
A thing that is the most perfect example of its type; the most perfect embodiment of something; epitome, prototype.
Quintessencenoun
A pure substance.
Quintessencenoun
The essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form.
Quintessencenoun
(alchemy) The fifth alchemical element, or essence, after earth, air, fire, and water that fills the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere.
Quintessencenoun
(physics) A hypothetical form of dark energy postulated to explain observations of an accelerating universe.
Quintessenceverb
(transitive) To reduce to its purest and most concentrated essence.
Quintessencenoun
The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment.
Quintessencenoun
Hence: An extract from anything, containing its rarest virtue, or most subtle and essential constituent in a small quantity; pure or concentrated essence.
Quintessencenoun
The most characteristic form or most perfect example of some type of object.
Quintessenceverb
To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence.
Quintessencenoun
the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
Quintessencenoun
the purest and most concentrated essence of something
Quintessencenoun
the most typical example or representative of a type
