Word: 'essence' • Extended Annotations
Word: 'essence' • Extended Annotations
from Latin essentia "being, essence"
translation of Greek ousia "being, essence"
see existence
present participle stem of esse "to be"
originally "substance of the Trinity"
from PIE root *es- "to be" + sentire (sensi, sensus) "perceive, feel, experience; think, realize, see, understand"
A pure, unadulterated word
"What he intended to pass on to them could not be imparted. Not in this way. Anything that came out of his mouth was, at that point, to such an extent downsized and degraded in meaning, consequently becoming so vague and fuzzy that it could easily have been perceived to mean anything at all. His words had become highly interpretable, losing their essence and, thus, all sense."
"Weird Genius"
| ~☉~ | lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context |
| ⚜ | classic definition |
| ☣ | artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense |
