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unessence

noun

Etymology

From un- + essence.

  1. derived from οὐσία
  2. derived from essentia
  3. derived from essence
  4. inherited from essence
  5. prefixed as unessence — “un + essence”

Definitions

  1. Lack of essence

    Lack of essence; that which is not essence.

  2. To deprive of its essential nature.

    • Not only does truth, in these long intervals, unessence herself, but (what is harder) one cannot venture a crude fiction for the fear that it may ripen into a truth upon the voyage.
    • Education is a vital process involving intelligent, growing, sensitive and dynamic human elements and it becomes mechanical at the risk of unessencing itself.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unessence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA