Usually means: Essence of a thing; purest.
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  1. quintessence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. quintessence, the quintessence: Merriam-Webster
  3. quintessence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. quintessence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. quintessence: Collins English Dictionary
  6. quintessence: Vocabulary.com
  7. Quintessence, quintessence: Wordnik
  8. quintessence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. quintessence: Wiktionary
  10. quintessence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. quintessence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. quintessence: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Quintessence, quintessence: Dictionary.com
  14. quintessence: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Quintessence (Bill Evans album), Quintessence (Borknagar album), Quintessence (English band), Quintessence (Finnish band), Quintessence (French band), Quintessence (Quintessence album), Quintessence (classical element), Quintessence (disambiguation), Quintessence (horse), Quintessence (physics), Quintessence (restaurant), The Quintessence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Quintessence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. quintessence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. quintessence: Rhymezone
  19. quintessence, quintessence (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. quintessence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Quintessence: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. quintessence: FreeDictionary.org
  23. quintessence: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. quintessence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. quintessence: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. Quintessence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Quintessence (album), Quintessence (band), Quintessence (disambiguation), quintessence: Legal dictionary

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  2. Quintessence (album), Quintessence (band), Quintessence (disambiguation), quintessence: Medical dictionary

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  1. quintessence: A Word A Day

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  1. Quintessence, quintessence: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (quintessence)

▸ noun:  A thing that is the most perfect example of its type; the most perfect embodiment of something; epitome, prototype.
▸ noun:  A pure substance.
▸ noun:  The essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form.
▸ noun:  (alchemy) The fifth alchemical element, or essence, after earth, air, fire, and water that fills the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere.
▸ noun:  (physics) A hypothetical form of dark energy postulated to explain observations of an accelerating universe.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To reduce to its purest and most concentrated essence.

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ether, archetype, epitome, picture, final boss, exemplar, pink, exemplarity, type, apotheosis, more...

Opposite:
ordinary, common, banal, unremarkable

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ether, aether, dark energy, dark fluid, quintessence field, more...

Phrases:
quintessence (disambiguation), quintessence (album), quintessence (band), The Quintessence, Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery, more...

Adjectives:
very, heavenly, pure, national, spiritual, concentrated, ethereal, ultimate, true, abstract, absolute

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    ivory,     pearl,     silver,     gold,     platinum, more...


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Similar:
ether, archetype, epitome, picture, final boss, exemplar, pink, exemplarity, type, apotheosis, more...

Opposite:
ordinary, common, banal, unremarkable

Types:
ether, aether, dark energy, dark fluid, quintessence field, more...

Phrases:
quintessence (disambiguation), quintessence (album), quintessence (band), The Quintessence, Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery, more...

Adjectives:
very, heavenly, pure, national, spiritual, concentrated, ethereal, ultimate, true, abstract, absolute

Colors:
    ivory,     pearl,     silver,     gold,     platinum, more...



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