What is the difference between essence and accidentalism?
essence | accidentalism |
(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
Accidental character or effect.
The belief that outward appearance often contrasts with substance or essence (after Thomas Aquinas) .
A system of medicine based on belief that symptoms of disease are caused by external factors.
The belief that events happen by random chance, without cause or purpose.
English words suffixed with -ism
As nouns the difference between essence and accidentalism
is that essence is (inherent nature)The inherent nature of a thing or idea while accidentalism is accidental character or effect.essence
English
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.
