Nectar vs Essence - What's the difference?
nectar | essence |
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
(by extension) Any delicious drink, now especially a type of sweetened fruit juice.
(botany) The sweet liquid secreted by flowers to attract pollinating insects and birds.
(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 nectar and essence
is that nectar is the drink of the gods while essence is (inherent nature)The inherent nature of a thing or idea.nectar
English
(wikipedia nectar)Noun
(en noun)- They pourd in soveraine balme and Nectar good, / Good both for erthly med'cine and for hevenly food.
See also
* ambrosia * pollenReferences
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* * * * * * ----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.