quiddity
Collocations
3VERB + QUIDDITY
represented, tone
QUIDDITY + NOUN
quaintness
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
The essence or inherent nature of a person or thing.
A tub of butter, contemplated by him, amounts to a Platonic idea. He understands a leg of mutton in its quiddity. He stands wondering, amid the commonplace materials of life, like primæval man, with the sun and stars about him.
My vision reeked with truth. It had the tone, The quiddity and quaintness of its own Reality.
A trifle; a nicety or quibble.
An eccentricity; an odd feature.
They have ſwallowed and digeſted all the Fathers, the Codes, Provincials, Decretals, Pandects, Councils, Canons ; are Maſters of all the Schoolmen, not to fill their Heads and ſtuff their Writings with Quiddities and Quoddities, and far-fetched unintelligible Diſtinctions, but to be able to reaſon cloſely, to argue ſolidly, to rebuke, to confute, to reply, to rejoind, to ſyllogize, to criticize, to apologize, to advertize, to ſermonize, to decypherize, to――
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3A tub of butter, contemplated by him, amounts to a Platonic idea. He understands a leg of mutton in its quiddity. He stands wondering, amid the commonplace materials of life, like primæval man, with t
WiktionaryMy vision reeked with truth. It had the tone, The quiddity and quaintness of its own Reality.
WiktionaryHe represented my quiddity I suppose – the part which, thanks to you, has converted a black pessimism about life into a belief in cosmic absurdity.
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