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quintessences

noun

plural of quintessence
1
as in perfections
the most perfect type or example the Parthenon in Greece was considered the quintessence of the perfectly proportioned building

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2
as in essences
the quality or qualities that make a thing what it is a selfless desire to help others is the quintessence of the virtue of charity

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quintessences
  1. perfections
  2. essences
  3. manifestations
  4. substances
  5. classics
  6. ideals
  7. incarnations
  8. models
Noun
  • The collection is built around a fascination of the forest, its mystery, beauty, and the sublime forces of nature, its perfections and imperfections.
    — Felicity Carter, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Definition of perfections
Noun
  • Wittgenstein proposed to abandon the appeal to essences for the concept of family resemblance.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
  • To experience a thicker, chewier noodle, order the tsukemen (dipping-style ramen) with a broth, as dense as gravy, fusing the essences of pork, chicken and fish.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of essences
Noun
  • The 1905 law explicitly mentions religious ceremonies, processions and other outdoor manifestations as subject to the ordinary rules governing public order.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Sports are in the midst of a global makeover from narrow manifestations of tribal interest to mainstays of the monoculture.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of manifestations
Noun
  • From laboratory equipment to the battlefield A fieldable version could eventually give personnel a portable way to assess unknown substances without transporting samples to a laboratory.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Boldenone, one of the substances at issue, has been associated with livestock-production practices and meat-contamination claims in prior anti-doping cases involving athletes competing in Colombia.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of substances
Noun
  • Across the week-long trip, Clooney’s wardrobe comprised of all her classics.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Besides the several covers of ‘90s-era pop music classics by the likes of INXS and Tina Turner, composer Nathan Matthew David has contributed an original soundtrack incorporating traditional Filipino and Indigenous instruments.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of classics
Noun
  • This mythologizing of a masculine, European (though crucially not British) version of Columbus supported burgeoning American ideals of Manifest Destiny (the idea that the United States was preordained to expand to the Pacific Ocean and beyond).
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026
  • These unspool in the form of action scenes where the stakes aren’t just personal safety, but the larger ideals of a nation under political suppression.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of ideals
Noun
  • The Jets and the league announced on Wednesday that the statistical histories of both incarnations of the team have been merged.
    — Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • No Way Home drew on the superhero's previous film incarnations, bringing them all together as Peter Parker's world collapses.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of incarnations
Noun
  • The 33-year-old wasn’t the only superstar to strut down the runway, as fellow Bronx native Jennifer Lopez, mgk and J Balvin were also among the models in the show.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Northeast faces a wet, windy weekend Forecast models have waffled back and forth for days but have been consistent on putting New England and Long Island, New York, in the bull’s-eye of the storm’s most significant rain and wind this weekend.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of models
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“Quintessences.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quintessences. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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