unessence
English
Etymology
un- + essence
Noun
unessence (uncountable)
- (philosophy) Lack of essence; that which is not essence.
Verb
unessence (third-person singular simple present unessences, present participle unessencing, simple past and past participle unessenced)
- (transitive) To deprive of its essential nature.
- Charles Lamb
- 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.
- 1965, An introduction to educational and psychological research (page 7)
- Education is a vital process involving intelligent, growing, sensitive and dynamic human elements and it becomes mechanical at the risk of unessencing itself.
- Charles Lamb