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quiddity
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Quiddity
(gcide) | Quiddity \Quid"di*ty\, n.; pl. Quiddities. [LL. quidditas, fr.
L. quid what, neut. of quis who, akin to E. who: cf. F.
quiddit['e].]
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." --Bacon.
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The quiddity or characteristic difference of poetry
as distinguished from prose. --De Quincey.
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2. A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble.
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We laugh at the quiddities of those writers now.
--Coleridge.
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quiddity
(wn) | quiddity
n 1: an evasion of the point of an argument by raising
irrelevant distinctions or objections [syn: quibble,
quiddity, cavil]
2: the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and
makes it different from any other [syn: quiddity,
haecceity] |
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Quiddity
(gcide) | Quiddity \Quid"di*ty\, n.; pl. Quiddities. [LL. quidditas, fr.
L. quid what, neut. of quis who, akin to E. who: cf. F.
quiddit['e].]
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." --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
The quiddity or characteristic difference of poetry
as distinguished from prose. --De Quincey.
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2. A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble.
[1913 Webster]
We laugh at the quiddities of those writers now.
--Coleridge.
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