English Dictionary

quintessence

IPA（発音記号）

/kwɪn.ˈtɛs.əns/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

A thing that is the most perfect example of its type; the most perfect embodiment of something; epitome, prototype. / A pure substance. / The essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form.

日本語の意味

その種類の中で最も優れた例、または理念の最高の体現 / 何かの本質が最も濃縮された状態や純粋なエッセンス / 典型的な実例、代表的な見本

Her calm, measured responses in every crisis made her the quintessence of steady leadership.

危機のたびに見せる彼女の冷静で慎重な対応は、安定したリーダーシップの典型そのものだった。

意味（1）

A thing that is the most perfect example of its type; the most perfect embodiment of something; epitome, prototype.

As families and kindreds sometimes do; producing, after long ages of unnoted notability, some living quintescence of all the qualities they had, to flame forth as a man world-noted […]

意味（2）

A pure substance.

意味（3）

The essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form.

For vvhat is ſilke but eu'n a Quinteſſence, / Made vvithout hands beyond al humane ſenſe? / A quinteſſence? nay vvel it may be call'd, / A deathleſſe tincture, ſent vs from the skies, / VVhoſe colour ſtands, vvhose gloſſe is ne're appalld, […]

意味（4）

(alchemy) The fifth alchemical element, or essence, after earth, air, fire, and water that fills the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere.

意味（5）

(physics) A hypothetical form of dark energy postulated to explain observations of an accelerating universe.

quintessences （ plural ）