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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



... 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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