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Quiddity   Listen
noun
Quiddity  n.  (pl. quiddities)  
1.
The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it? " The degree of nullity and quiddity." "The quiddity or characteristic difference of poetry as distinguished from prose."
2.
A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble. "We laugh at the quiddities of those writers now."





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"Quiddity" Quotes from Famous Books



... dine with me, and, after meat, We'll canvass every quiddity thereof; For, ere I sleep, I'll try what I can do: This night I'll conjure, though I ...
— The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus • Christopher Marlowe
... To stuff his conversation full of quibble and of quiddity, To dine on chops and roly-poly pudding with avidity— He'd better clear away ...
— The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan - The 14 Gilbert And Sullivan Plays • William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan


Words linked to "Quiddity" :   evasion, centre, core, sum, equivocation, haecceity, substance, gist, kernel, cavil, marrow, nub, inwardness, center, heart and soul, heart, quibble


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