ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Quintessentiality

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Quintessentiality is a noun meaning (uncountable) The quality of being quintessential.

Meaning

(uncountable) The quality of being quintessential.

More Meanings

  1. (countable) Something that is quintessential.

Example Sentences

We have heard so much about the sins of big business that we have come to regard little business as the quintessentiality of innocent martyrdom.
The ability to rule, the power to stand alone and to swing the club, the power to take and, having taken, to keep, was the very quintessentiality of his existence.
Every corner therefore was crowded, save only that one box which, as in a microcosm, is wont to contain the very quintessentiality of the fashion and ton of London.
At all events, the spirit of these great fathers of the first philosophy was upon him, and Humbughausen was a concentrated quintessentiality of them all,—one, to whom dreaming was a natural condition; one who, while his external senses were proof against the rudest impressions, could do so much better without them, as to be intuitively conversant not only with all actual, but all possible existence.

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Related dictionary entries include quintessentialness, quintessential, quintessence, essentiability, nessness, essentiality.

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