Words Like QUINTESSENCE
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21 Alternative Words Similar to quintessence
10 definitions of quintessence
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The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under ferment.
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Hence: An extract from anything, containing its rarest virtue, or most subtle and essential constituent in a small quantity; pure or concentrated essence.
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The most characteristic form or most perfect example of some type of object.
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To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence.
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the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
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the most typical example or representative of a type
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the purest and most concentrated essence of something
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The pure, highly concentrated essence of a thing.
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The purest or most typical instance: the quintessence of evil.
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In ancient and medieval philosophy, the fifth and highest essence after the four elements of earth, air, fire, and water, thought to be the substance of the heavenly bodies and latent in all things.