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Ironically, the definition of the term “definition essay” is not very specific.  Definition essays are short pieces of writing on a particular topic.  However, not every essay on a topic can be properly labeled a definition essay.  Instead, a definition essay is an attempt to describe the topic thoroughly enough for the reader to understand it very well and might be compared to an encyclopedia entry for the topic.  Any of our example essays could provide a good start on a definition essay about the topic.  However, we have collected a sample of our best definition essays and included them below to help you explore the genre.  

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Common sense and rational decision-making
The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines common sense as: "the unreflective opinions of ordinary people," and "sound and prudent but often unsophisticated judgment." While this definition is reflective of the…
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Picnic to the Earth Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Shuntaro Tanikawa illustrate the transforming power of love as it is experienced through everyday occurrences. Faiz and Shuntaro express on how being in love has changed them by focusing on very…
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Aristotle at the Very Beginning of Book
At the very beginning of Book I Chapter XIII, Aristotle states that "happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect virtue" (Ethics 1102a). What he means here, quite simply, is that true happiness…
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Socrates: life, philosophy, and historical significance
Justice is ultimately an unknowable concept, if we accept Plato's ideas of 'form' or the essential nature of concepts. In the Republic, Plato presents several intelligent and well-thought-out discussions about the…
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Paradox of confirmation bias in decision-making
Paradoxes seem to form the essence of irrationality and to continuously prove that rationality has a limit and that rationally inducing a fact may in fact prove the fact wrong. What is in fact a paradox?
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Research methods and applications
¶ … authors write, "History as academic historians write it today would be almost unrecognizable to scholars working even fifty years ago, let alone in a past that is a century, two centuries - or twenty centuries -…
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Burglary -- History, Definition, and Hypothetical Case
According to Common Law, burglary was identified as the breaking and entering the premises of another person's inhabitance with the purpose of committing a crime there. It can thus be associated with ideas like the act…
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Lactose intolerance: causes, symptoms, and management
¶ … lactose intolerance, and a description of its' relevance to nutrition; consumers, health care professionals, and patients. Lactose intolerance is a disease aggravated by milk sugars.
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A nomothetic study of psychological phenomena
Nomothetic Study in Psychology and Social Science Data
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Einsrin\'s Dreams by Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman's novel Einstein's Dreams presents various notions about time that apparently came to Albert Einstein in his dreams. Lightman calls his work a novel, although that characterization can be argued.
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