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:

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, a software development method related to SEMAT
 * 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