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Quiddity

noun
(pl. quiddities)
1.
An evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections.  Synonyms: cavil, quibble.
2.
The essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other.  Synonym: haecceity.





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"Quiddity" Quotes from Famous Books



... quiddity, 'Like ghosts of defunct bodies fly - Where Truth in person does appear Like words congealed in ...
— Lay Morals • Robert Louis Stevenson
... himself as a cause, a surprising intruder upon the routine of the world, an original creator. I think that he is right, and that the profitable study of a man is the study which regards him as an oddity, not a quiddity. ...
— Romance - Two Lectures • Walter Raleigh
... and quiddity, Like ghosts of defunct bodies fly— Where Truth in person does appear Like words congealed ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson


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