Atmosphere vs Essence - What's the difference?
atmosphere | essence | Related terms |
The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
The air in a particular place.
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*:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
The mood or feeling in a situation.
A unit of measurement for pressure (symbol: atm)
(senseid)The inherent nature of a thing or idea.
* Landor
* Addison
* Courthorpe
(philosophy) The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory.
Constituent substance.
* Milton
A being; especially, a purely spiritual being.
* Milton
* Washington Irving
A significant feature of something.
The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through a distillation process.
* essence of Jojoba
Fragrance, a perfume.
* Alexander Pope
As nouns the difference between atmosphere and essence
is that atmosphere is the gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body while essence is (inherent nature)The inherent nature of a thing or idea.atmosphere
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (mood) air, ambiance, feeling, moodMeronyms
* See alsoSee also
* ambiance, ambience * moodessence
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Noun
(en noun)- The laws are at present, both in form and essence , the greatest curse that society labours under.
- Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence of this virtue [charity].
- The essence of Addison's humour is irony.
- Uncompounded is their essence pure.
- As far as gods and heavenly essences / Can perish.
- He had been indulging in fanciful speculations on spiritual essences , until he had an ideal world of his own around him.
- Nor let the essences exhale.