Essence vs Embodiment - What's the difference?
essence | embodiment |
(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
a physical entity typifying an abstraction
* 1880 , W.S. Gilbert, Iolanthe
As nouns the difference between essence and embodiment
is that essence is (senseid)the inherent nature of a thing or idea while embodiment is a physical entity typifying an abstraction.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.
Derived terms
* in essence * of the essence; time is of the essenceExternal links
* *Anagrams
* ----embodiment
English
Noun
(wikipedia embodiment) (en noun)- You are the very embodiment of beauty.
- The law is the true embodiment Of everything that's excellent. It has no kind of fault or flaw, And I, my Lords, embody the law.