Essence vs Rudiment - What's the difference?
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(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 fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural).
* Shakespeare
Something in an undeveloped form (often in the plural).
* Milton
* I. Taylor
(biology) A body part that no longer has a function
(music) In percussion, one of a selection of basic drum patterns learned as an exercise.
As nouns the difference between essence and rudiment
is that essence is (inherent nature)The inherent nature of a thing or idea while rudiment is a fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural).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
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English
(wikipedia rudiment)Noun
(en noun)- We learn the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.
- This boy is forest-born, / And hath been tutored in the rudiments / Of many desperate studies.
- I have the rudiments of an escape plan.
- But I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit / Those rudiments , and see before thine eyes / The monarchies of the earth.
- The single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape.