Essence vs. Sense

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.

Essencenoun

A being; esp., a purely spiritual being.

Essencenoun

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.

Essencenoun

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

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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.

Sensenoun

Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.

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Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.

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Sound practical or moral judgment.

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The meaning, reason, or value of something.

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A natural appreciation or ability.

Sensenoun

(pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.

Sensenoun

(semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.

Sensenoun

(mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.

Sensenoun

(mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.

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(biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.

Senseverb

To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.

Senseverb

To instinctively be aware.

Senseverb

To comprehend.

Sensenoun

A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature.

Sensenoun

Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.

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Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.

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Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.

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That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.

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Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.

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Moral perception or appreciation.

Sensenoun

One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.

Senseverb

To perceive by the senses; to recognize.

Sensenoun

a general conscious awareness;

Sensenoun

the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted;

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the faculty through which the external world is apprehended;

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sound practical judgment;

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a natural appreciation or ability;

Senseverb

perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles;

Senseverb

detect some circumstance or entity automatically;

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become aware of not through the senses but instinctively;

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comprehend;

Sensenoun

a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch

Sensenoun

a feeling that something is the case

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a keen intuitive awareness of or sensitivity to the presence or importance of something

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a sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems

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a reasonable or comprehensible rationale

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a way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning

Sensenoun

a property (e.g. direction of motion) distinguishing a pair of objects, quantities, effects, etc. which differ only in that each is the reverse of the other

Sensenoun

relating to or denoting a coding sequence of nucleotides, complementary to an antisense sequence.

Senseverb

perceive by a sense or senses

Senseverb

be aware of (something) without being able to define exactly how one knows

Senseverb

(of a machine or similar device) detect

Sense

A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the world and responding to stimuli. (For example, in the human body, the brain receives signals from the senses, which continuously receive information from the environment, interprets these signals, and causes the body to respond, either chemically or physically.) Although traditionally around five human senses were known (namely sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing), it is now recognized that there are many more.