Quintessential vs Classical - What's the difference?
quintessential | classical |
Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
* Arbuthnot
Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
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(music) Describing European music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
(informal, music) Describing serious music (rather than pop, jazz, blues etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
* Macaulay
Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.
* Macaulay
(physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
As adjectives the difference between quintessential and classical
is that quintessential is of the nature of a quintessence (in all senses); ultimate while classical is of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.quintessential
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classical
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Mr. Greaves may justly be reckoned a classical author on this subject.
- Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
- He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college.
- Classical , provincial, and national synods.