Quintessence vs Ascendant - What's the difference?
quintessence | ascendant |
A thing that is the most perfect example of its type; the most perfect embodiment of something.
A pure substance.
The essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form.
(alchemy) The fifth alchemical element, or essence, after earth, air, fire, and water
(physics) A hypothetical form of dark energy postulated to explain observations of an accelerating universe.
To reduce to its purest and most concentrated essence.
Rising, moving upward.
* Browne
Surpassing or controlling.
* South
* John Stuart Mill
Being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency.
* Robertson
An ancestor (antonym of descendant)
Ascent; height; elevation.
* Temple
(astrology) The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune.
As nouns the difference between quintessence and ascendant
is that quintessence is a thing that is the most perfect example of its type; the most perfect embodiment of something while ascendant is being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency.As a verb quintessence
is to reduce to its purest and most concentrated essence.As an adjective ascendant is
rising, moving upward.quintessence
English
(wikipedia quintessence)Noun
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* quintessential * quintessentiallyVerb
(en-verb)References
* * *ascendant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The constellation about that time ascendant .
- An ascendant spirit over him.
- The ascendant community obtained a surplus of wealth.
Noun
(wikipedia ascendant) (en noun)- One man has the ascendant over another.
- Chievres had acquired over the mind of the young monarch the ascendant not only of a tutor, but of a parent.
- (Ayliffe)
- Sciences that were then in their highest ascendant .
- (Burke)