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quiddity


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  The  quiddity  or  characteristic  difference  of  poetry 
  as  distinguished  from  prose.  --De  Quincey. 
 
  2.  A  trifling  nicety;  a  cavil;  a  quibble. 
 
  We  laugh  at  the  quiddities  of  those  writers  now 
  --Coleridge. 




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