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the defining or most important aspect of something- To make things better, to enjoy each other's company, and to empathize are essence of humanity.
essence = the defining or most important aspect of something
- There was only—spring itself; the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere...Willa Cather
- When we drink small amounts of blood, we do not take any of a person's essence.Darren Shan -- A Vampire's Assistant
- What I have tried to do here was not to write everything, but in essence everything that was said.Ernest J. Gaines -- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets.Matthew 7:12 (NLT)
- The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.Jane Addams
- He described the essence of chaos theory as "sensitive dependence on initial conditions."
- The essence of the legislative authority is to enact laws...Alexander Hamilton -- Federalist Papers
- That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.Bergen Evans
- Their essence is not less beautiful than their appearance, though it needs finer organs for its apprehension.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Essays, First Series
- She took the essence of our life stories and made them palatable and enjoyable for a youth and teen audience.Sampon Davis, et. al. -- We Beat the Street
- He had killed The Cat but, in essence, The Cat had escaped.Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars
- The tree itself looked perfectly fine, whole and healthy, suffused with the essence of the Golden Fleece.Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters
- My dad has passed on to his boys the essence of what he is.Phil Robertson -- Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
- You'll remember the essence.Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
- So what is teft—just pure essence.Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club
- For a couple of minutes, you hear the essence of someone's story—the sort of wisdom that only comes from a life deeply lived.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
- You have been, I fancy, in essence a disappointed man all your life.Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
- These lumps seemed too small somehow, burned down to their essence.Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Uprising
- An essence of Carrie, a gestalt.Stephen King -- Carrie
essence = most important part (that is needed to be who they are)
essence = the defining or most important aspect of something