Usually means: Core nature of something fundamental.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word essence:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. essence: Merriam-Webster
  2. essence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. essence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. essence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. essence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Essence, essence: Wordnik
  7. essence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. essence: Wiktionary
  9. essence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. essence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. essence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. essence: Dictionary.com
  13. essence: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. essence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Essence (A Guy Called Gerald album), Essence (Don Ellis album), Essence (John Lewis album), Essence (Lucinda Williams album), Essence (Shelly Manne album), Essence (The X-Files), Essence (disambiguation), Essence (magazine), Essence (media), Essence, The Essence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Essence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. essence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. essence: Rhymezone
  19. essence, essence (de), essence (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. essence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. essence: FreeDictionary.org
  22. essence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. essence: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. essence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essence: Health & Beauty Glossary
  2. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  3. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  4. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. essence: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. essence: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Essence (media), essence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. essence: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ESSENCE, Essence (media): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. ESSENCE: Acronym Finder
  3. essence: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)
  4. essence: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. essence, essence: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Essence: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. essence: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beauty Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Essence: Beauty & Health Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The inherent nature of a thing or idea.
noun:  (philosophy) The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory.
noun:  Constituent substance.
noun:  A being; especially, a purely spiritual being.
noun:  A significant feature of something.
noun:  The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through a distillation process.
noun:  An extract or concentrate obtained from a plant or other matter used for flavouring, or as a restorative.
noun:  Fragrance, a perfume.
noun:  A female given name of African-American usage.

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