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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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