Interior vs Essence - What's the difference?
interior | essence |
Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.
Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.
The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.
The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.
(mathematics, topology) The set of all interior points of a set.
(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
As nouns the difference between interior and essence
is that interior is the inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure while essence is (senseid)the inherent nature of a thing or idea.As an adjective interior
is within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.interior
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Alternative forms
* interiour (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- the interior''' apartments of a house; the '''interior surface of a hollow ball
- the interior parts of a region or country
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* (l)Derived terms
* interior decoration * interior design * interior designerNoun
(en noun)- ''Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior .
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* (l)essence
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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.