Associations to the word «Quintessence»

Wiktionary

QUINTESSENCE, noun. A thing that is the most perfect example of its type; the most perfect embodiment of something.
QUINTESSENCE, noun. A pure substance.
QUINTESSENCE, noun. The essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form.
QUINTESSENCE, noun. (alchemy) The fifth alchemical element, or essence, after earth, air, fire, and water
QUINTESSENCE, noun. (physics) A hypothetical form of dark energy postulated to explain observations of an accelerating universe.
QUINTESSENCE, verb. (transitive) To reduce to its purest and most concentrated essence.

Dictionary definition

QUINTESSENCE, noun. The fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies.
QUINTESSENCE, noun. The purest and most concentrated essence of something.
QUINTESSENCE, noun. The most typical example or representative of a type.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King