| 例句 |
essencesnounpl. of essence the quality or qualities that make a thing what it isthe belief that power ultimately rests with the people is the very essence of democracy beings, essentialities, natures, quiddities, quintessences, souls, stuff, substances hearts, spiritsalpha and omegas, centers, cores, keynotes, marrows, piths, seatsembodiments, epitomes, incarnations, manifestations, personificationsaspects, attributes, features, propertiesgists, kernels, nubs the central part or aspect of something under considerationpresented the essence of weeks of testimony in a 20-minute appeal to the jury bottom lines, bull's-eyes, centerpieces, cores, cruxes(also cruces), gists, hearts, kernels, keynotes, meat and potatoes, meats, nets, nubbins, nubs, nuclei(also nucleuses), piths, pivots, points, roots, sums courses, directions, drifts, tenorsbodies, contents, substanceshypotheses, propositions, purports, subjects, themes, theses |