n. Function: noun
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Synonyms: ESSENCE 2, bottom, essentiality, marrow, quintessence, quintessential, rock bottom, root, soul, virtuality
Related Words: center, focus, nucleus; meaning, meaningfulness
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Synonyms: SUBSTANCE 2, burden, core, gist, matter, meat, sense, short, thrust, upshot
Idioms: the long and (the) short
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Synonyms: CENTER 3, core, heart, quick, root
Related Words: fulcrum; hub
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Synonyms: IMPORTANCE , consequence, import, magnitude, moment, momentousness, significance, ||signification, weight, weightiness