Unessence
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Unessence is a noun meaning (philosophy) Lack of essence; that which is not essence.
Meaning
(philosophy) Lack of essence; that which is not essence.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To deprive of its essential nature.
Example Sentences
Education is a vital process involving intelligent, growing, sensitive and dynamic human elements and it becomes mechanical at the risk of unessencing itself.
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.
Word Forms
- unessences
- unessencing
- unessenced
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include essencelessness, nonthing, emptiness, unexistence, existencelessness, nonentity.
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