essence
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- n the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- n any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted
- n the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- n a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor
- That quality is the distilled essence of what it means to be human.
- Male essence, mixed with alcohol, was applied to the upper lips of six women with abnormal menstrual cycles and no current sexual re- lationship.
- According to Hahnemann, the vigorous shaking transferred the "spiritlike" essence of the medicine to the solvent.