Aspect vs Essential - What's the difference?
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The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something
One's appearance or expression.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Dryden)
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Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass.
Prospect; outlook.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Evelyn)
(grammar) A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding.
(astrology) The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope.
(obsolete) The act of looking at something; gaze.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Sir (Francis Bacon)
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Sir (Walter Scott)
(obsolete) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Thomas Burnet)
* (and other bibliographic particulars)
(computing, programming) In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.
Necessary.
Very important; of high importance.
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Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
Really existing; existent.
* Webster (1623)
Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.
(medicine) Idiopathic.
As nouns the difference between aspect and essential
is that aspect is the way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective while essential is a necessary ingredient.As an adjective essential is
necessary.aspect
English
(wikipedia aspect)Noun
(en noun)- serious in aspect
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect .}}
- It is Stephen Gardiner, black and scowling, his aspect in no way improved by his trip to Rome.
- This town affords a good aspect toward the hill from whence we descended.
- (Milton)
- The basilisk killeth by aspect .
- His aspect was bent on the ground.
- the true aspect of a world lying in its rubbish
- the aspect of affairs
Synonyms
* (visual expression) blee, appearance, lookHyponyms
(Grammatical aspect) * (grammar) aorist aspect, iterative aspect, perfective aspect, imperfective aspect, semelfactive aspect, progressive aspect, perfect aspectDerived terms
* aspect ratio * aspectualessential
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […]}}
- Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.
- Is it true, that thou art but a name, / And no essential thing?