Quintessence

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We picked the name QUINTESSENCE STORES INC, simply because of the many interesting definitions of the word QUINTESSENCE, so we thought folks might like to know what some of those definitions are.

quin•tes•sence (kwĭn-tĕs’əns) n. Etymology: is Middle English, and from Middle French quinte essence, quīnta essentia (translation of Greek pemptē ousiā), and from Medieval Latin quinta essentia, literally, fifth essence

The purest and most concentrated essence of something: the most perfect embodiment of something. The most typical instance, example or representative <the quintessence of calm>

Also defined as a basic trait or set of characteristics, that establish the character of something, and define it: being, essence, essentiality, nature, substance, texture.

The most central, the core and the material part: essence, heart, gist, marrow, kernel, meat, pith, nub, spirit, soul, root 1, substance, stuff.

In physics, the word quintessence is used to describe a hypothetical form of dark energy which is an underpinning theory for the explanation of observations of an accelerating universe, a scalar field which has an equation of state. It’s dynamic, and generally has a density and equation of state that varies through time and space. It’s not been detected directly, but the existence of quintessence may be an explanation for the accelerating expansion of the universe.

In medieval and ancient philosophy, quintessence is the fifth and the highest element after air, earth, fire and water; it was believed that quintessence was the substance that composes all of the heavenly bodies and was latent in all things. Or highest essence that permeates all of nature and as such is the substance that composes the celestial bodies

In alchemy, quintessence is another term for aether; Aether (also spelled ether). The aether they believed was the substance which filled the region of the universe above the terrestrial sphere. The fifth alchemical principle was the underlying spiritual basis postulating the four elements, that correspond to the concept of “the Ether”, or the “space-time continuum”.

The ancient philosophers of Indian also espoused the same basic concept of a fifth element; as such Sanskrit had five elements (bhutas), earth, wind, fire, water and the fifth aether.