quiddity
IPA: kwˈɪdɪti
noun
- (philosophy) The essence or inherent nature of a person or thing.
- (law) A trifle; a nicety or quibble.
- An eccentricity; an odd feature.
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Examples of "quiddity" in Sentences
- Thank you for the nudge Quiddity.
- Quiddity sums up the situation very well.
- Quiddity said to wait for more discussion.
- Quiddity's observations are very perceptive.
- Quiddity seems to think that is a good idea.
- Quiddity reverted a link to a specific portal.
- Quiddity, thanks for helping out with this page.
- It has therefore been termed the quiddity of the thing.
- Much thanks for the welcome and for the compliment Quiddity.
- But Quiddity's does no harm and is not aesthetically unpleasing.
- Quiddity provided adequate attribution for the lead in his edit.
- I was reminded of contranyms when Matt sent me an email about the word quiddity which means both “essence” and “hairsplitting distinction.”
- The quiddity of a terminal is smarm, or perhaps a smarmy hustling: sweating, fat men counting bills with strange intensity under a light besieged by insects.
- I even prefer it over college basketball, (although I think the two are apples and oranges, but that's another post: the ontological quiddity of pro vs. college b-ball).
- A novelist’s ultimate achievement is to enable us to know a character so well that we catch a glimpse of his inviolable unknowability, his singular quiddity – in other words, though Wood doesn’t use the term, his soul.
- A novelist's ultimate achievement is to enable us to know a character so well that we catch a glimpse of his inviolable unknowability, his singular quiddity -- in other words, though Wood doesn't use the term, his soul.
- The real but initially hidden starting point for Bonaventure's ontological argument in the Journey is the notion of esse purissimum, taken not subjectively as existing as a concept in a human mind, but in its objective meaning, [63] that is, as signifying a certain kind of quiddity or essence.
- This may be expressed in the form of the apophatic theology of an Ibn Sina or Maimonides or Nicholas of Cusa: Ibn Sina (like Aquinas and all that flows from him) insists that there can be no answer to the question, 'What makes God divine?' as if some 'quiddity' could be identified that grounded a divine definition.
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