Essence (disambiguation)

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 Guy Called Gerald album), 2000
• Essence (Lucinda Williams album), 2001, or the title song

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 (magazine), an African American magazine with a primarily female readership
• Essence (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics), a United States Department of Defense health-protection initiative
• Essence (yacht), an American yacht sank in a collision with a cargo ship on 29 April 2009
• Essential oil, of a given substance
• Extract, used as a food flavoring
• an OMG standard on software engineering created by the SEMAT initiative