essence of life
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- noun
:
esencia de la vida
- Love is the essence of life.
Yet this is where the essence of life is.
- Yet this is where the essence of life is.
- But it could be that romantic bullshit is actually the essence of life and the source of his deepest meaning.
- So he says this may be called the simple essence of life.
Examples
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Like, truth is the very essence of life.
Fiction book (1990) -
Surely, instead, her heart pumped the distilled essence of life itself.
Fiction book (1992) -
The migration of forms is the essence of life.
Academic text (1998) -
At some point in our youth, we discover that change is the essence of life, and to resist it is to resist the inevitable flow of life itself.
Blog text (24) -
Sometimes those jobs make me feel grounded, a part of the essence of life, the simple things that nobody talks about but we all have to do—some of us more often than others.
Fiction book (2000) -
Breath is linked to spirituality not only etymologically but also culturally; the breath has often been correlated with beliefs about the very essence of life.
Academic text (2015) -
In Svevo's text, there is the same seriousness of inquiry into the essence of life and the same anguish in facing the inevitability of death, underlying the brilliant surface of his writing.
Academic text (1995) -
Love is the essence of life.
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For many, friendship and family are the essence of life.
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Finding one's purpose is often considered the essence of life.
Synonyms
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The most important part that holds a group or thing together
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'essence of life' is directly compositional: 'essence' (central or defining quality) combined with 'life' yields the intended meaning without additional idiomatic shift, and 'of' simply marks the relationship. This construction is cross-linguistically common and follows standard noun + of + noun patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase essence of life comes from the idea of boiling something down until only a small, strong essence is left, like a tiny drop that holds all the flavor. So calling something the essence of life means it is the 'most important quality' that gives life meaning.