Definitions for quintessence

quintessence quin·tes·sence

Spelling: [kwin-tes-uh ns]
IPA: /kwɪnˈtɛs əns/

Quintessence is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 23 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 27 points.

You can make 411 anagrams from letters in quintessence (ceeeinnqsstu).

Definitions for quintessence

noun

  1. the pure and concentrated essence of a substance.
  2. the most perfect embodiment of something.
  3. (in ancient and medieval philosophy) the fifth essence or element, ether, supposed to be the constituent matter of the heavenly bodies, the others being air, fire, earth, and water.

Origin of quintessence

1400-50; Middle English Medieval Latin quīnta essentia fifth essence

Examples for quintessence

“Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot,” Lisette Model would write.

To the man of the world they are the quintessence of his own reflections upon life.

That, America, is the quintessence of naturally occurring British-cute.

Yes, Holmes was the quintessence of the Victorian rationalism, “the most perfect and reasoning machine that the world had seen.”

The actor is the quintessence of smooth, first as Remington Steele, then James Bond.

"This is the quintessence of my journalism; that is the supreme argument," he said to Antonia.

Adams was a quintessence of Boston, devoured by curiosity to think like Benvenuto.

The law of compensation itself is the quintessence of horse sense.

They are the very breath of democracy; the quintessence of freedom.

In recent years, Stoner entered a category of which it soon became the quintessence.

Word Value for quintessence
Scrable

23

Words with friends

27

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