quintessential
adjEtymology
PIE word *pénkʷe From quintessence + -al.
Definitions
Of the nature of a quintessence (in all senses)
Of the nature of a quintessence (in all senses); being or relating to the ultimate essence of something.
- Often heralded as the quintessential RPG, and rarely rivaled by any other, this game is becoming increasingly difficult to find due to the fact that so many RPG fans are buying them at every chance they get.
- The krogan evolved in a lethal ecology. Over millions of years, the grim struggle to survive larger predators, virulent disease, and resource scarcity on their homeworld, Tuchanka, turned the lizards into quintessential survivors.
- Twin Tracks is the old-fashioned autobiography of a quintessential Englishman, evocative of an age when you took halibut oil for rickets and sportsmen were amateurs who trained in their lunch breaks.
The fundamental essence of something.
- A final aspect of the focus argument concerns the potential for integration to highlight the quintessentials of each subject.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at quintessential. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at quintessential. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at quintessential
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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