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Meanings of quiddity in English

Portuguese
falarchicanas
Catalan
subtilesa

An evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections.

        falarchicanas
        Spanish
        quididad

        The essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other.

              quididad
              Spanish
              quididad
              Catalan
              quidditat

              Essence or inherent nature of a person or thing.

                    quididad
                    Usage of quiddity in English
                    1
                    He knew it well, and was cognizant with its every legal quiddity.
                    Cousin Henry
                    2
                    There you indeed appreciate the dead-alive city 'in all its quiddity.'
                    A Day's Tour / A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, T...
                    3
                    Serial killers are the quiddity and quintessence of malignant narcissism.
                    The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology
                    4
                    We in WITCH consider ourselves the incarnate quiddity of revolution-blendingfemale rebellion with Leftist revolt.
                    Feminist dot com
                    5
                    George Orwell thought a quiddity of England was an old maid cycling through mist to church.
                    The Guardian
                    6
                    An essential component of the quiddity.
                    The Reality Dysfunction
                    7
                    He finds them to be the quiddity of fascination one moment - and the distilled essence of boredom the next.
                    Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema
                    8
                    Thou dost as one who fully apprehends a thing by name, but cannot see its quiddity unless another explain it.
                    The Divine Comedy, Volume 3, Paradise
                    9
                    Will fly the body, but quiddity retain;
                    Purity of blood
                    10
                    Ferrell's shtick never gets there; the makers don't grasp the show's loopy quiddity, the grating earnestness that makes it so appalling and lovable.
                    The Guardian
                    11
                    But in the absolute consideration of the quiddity of a thing, and of those things which are known thereby, the intellect is never deceived.
                    Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) / From the Complete Americ...
                    12
                    None o' thy quiddities, thou maker of long lies and quick legs.
                    Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1
                    13
                    How now, how now, mad wag, what in thy quips and thy quiddities?
                    Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
                    14
                    But I would rather have a brisk wind than all thy vapours, thy quiddities, and quotations.
                    Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2
                    15
                    They could have set opinion right about the efficacy of the syllogism, and the virtue of entities and quiddities.
                    Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 1 of 2)
                    16
                    Apparently his intimacy with what Hamlet calls quiddities, quillets, cases, tenures, and tricks-lawyerlyarcana-derivedfrom his own lived experience.
                    Bardisms
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                    Translations for quiddity
                    Portuguese
                    falarchicanas
                    Quiddity through the time