Essence vs Stench - 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 strong foul smell, a stink
(figurative) a foul quality
(obsolete) A smell or odour, not necessarily bad.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To cause to emit a disagreeable odour; to cause to stink.
To stanch.
As nouns the difference between essence and stench
is that essence is (inherent nature)The inherent nature of a thing or idea while stench is a strong foul smell, a stink.As a verb stench is
to cause to emit a disagreeable odour; to cause to stink.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
Noun
(es)- the stench of political corruption
- Clouds of savoury stench involve the sky.
Synonyms
* (disagreeable smell) (l), (l) (Commonwealth)Antonyms
* (disagreeable smell) (l), (l), (l)Derived terms
* (l)Verb
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