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

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

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  1. Quintessence (album), Quintessence (band), Quintessence (disambiguation), quintessence: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quintessence: A Word A Day

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  1. Quintessence, quintessence: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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