Essence vs Trait - 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
an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
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(computing, programming) In object-oriented programming, an uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.
As nouns the difference between essence and trait
is that essence is (inherent nature)The inherent nature of a thing or idea while trait is an identifying characteristic, habit or trend.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 trait)Noun
(en noun)- The number one personality trait I hate is hypocrisy. Why can't you be consistent!?