Sense vs Essence - What's the difference?
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(senseid) Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (William Shakespeare)
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Milton)
(senseid)Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Sir (Philip Sidney)
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Milton)
(senseid)Sound practical or moral judgment.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (w, L'Estrange)
(senseid)The meaning, reason, or value of something.
* Bible, Neh. viii. 8
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Shakespeare)
(senseid)A natural appreciation or ability.
(senseid)(pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
(senseid)(semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
(mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
(mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
(senseid) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.
To instinctively be aware.
To comprehend.
(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 sense and essence
is that sense is (manner to perceive) Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste while essence is (inherent nature)The inherent nature of a thing or idea.As a verb sense
is to use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.sense
English
Noun
(en noun)- Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
- What surmounts the reach / Of human sense I shall delineate.
- a sense of security
- this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover
- high disdain from sense of injured merit
- It's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
- Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices.
- You don’t make any sense .
- the true sense of words or phrases
- So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense .
- I think 'twas in another sense .
- A keen musical sense
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* sense of smell (see olfaction) * (l)See also
* business sense * common sense * sixth sense * sight / vision * hearing / audition * taste / gustation * smell / olfaction * touch / tactition * thermoception * nociception * equilibrioception * proprioceptionVerb
(sens)- She immediately sensed her disdain.
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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.