gist
Noun
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The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work (synset 106616419)
is a type of: import, meaning, significance, signification - the message that is intended or expressed or signified
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The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience (synset 105929717)
"the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"is a type of: cognitive content, content, mental object - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learnedsubtypes:
- bare bones - (plural) the most basic facts or elements
- hypostasis - (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
- haecceity, quiddity - the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other
- quintessence - the purest and most concentrated essence of something
- stuff - a critically important or characteristic component
same as: center, centre, core, essence, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum
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