essence; true nature; reality
Example sentences
親切心は礼儀の本質である。
Kindness is the essence of politeness.
その問題について相当に長く考えてようやくその本質が見えてきた。
I had to think about the problem for quite a while before I saw daylight.
問題は、その本質よりもむしろ外観である。
The question is not so much what it is as how it looks.
More N1 vocabulary
- 生まれつきby nature; by birth; native
- 政策political measures; policy
- 逆上るto go back; to go upstream; to make retroactive
- 長々long; drawn-out; very long
- 建前face; official stance; public position or attitude (as opposed to private thoughts)
- 上手1. upper part; upper stream; left side (of a stage); 2. skillful (only in comparisons); dexterity (on