Essence is the attribute (or set of attributes) that make an object or substance what it fundamentally is.

Essence may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Television and film

  • The Essence, a short film series by Nathaniel Thompson
  • "Essence" (The X-Files), a 2001 episode of television show The X-Files

Music

  • Essence (John Lewis album), 1962
  • Essence (Don Ellis album), 1962
  • Essence (Eric Kloss album), 1973
  • Essence (Shelly Manne album), 1977
  • Essence, a pseudonym of The Space Brothers, a UK trance music act
  • Essence (A Guy Called Gerald album), 2000
  • Essence (Lucinda Williams album), 2001
  • Essence (Lucinda Williams song)
  • "Essence" (Wizkid song), a 2020 song by Wizkid featuring Tems
  • Essence, a Nigerian singer

Videogames

  • a measure of a living being's lifeforce in the role-playing game Shadowrun
  • the mystical force in the pen and paper role-playing game Exalted

Other uses

  • Essence (biological defense program), a United States Department of Defense health-protection initiative
  • Essence (magazine), an African American magazine with a primarily female readership
  • Essence (yacht), an American yacht sank in a collision with a cargo ship on 29 April 2009
  • Essential oil, of a given substance
  • Essence, a French language term used in some parts of Africa to refer to gasoline
  • Essence, a software development method and Object Management Group standard related to SEMAT
  • Extract, used as a food flavoring

See also

  • Esence (disambiguation)