mental object vs essence

essence vs mental object

mental object and essence both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mental object	Yes	No	No	No
essence	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, essence is a hyponym of mental object; that is, essence is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than mental object:

mental object: the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
essence: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

Other hyponyms of mental object include tradition, object, food, food for thought, intellectual nourishment, noumenon, thing-in-itself, universe, universe of discourse, issue, matter, subject, topic, issue, idea, thought, center, centre, core, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum, wisdom, internal representation, mental representation, representation, belief, kenosis, disbelief, unbelief, heresy, unorthodoxy, end, goal, education, experience, acculturation, culture, lore, traditional knowledge, ignorance, domain, knowledge base, knowledge domain, metaknowledge.

mental object (noun)	essence (noun)
the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned	a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor
	the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
	the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
	any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted

Difference between mental object and essence

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