Term Gallery logo

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
Synonyms
Examples for "quibble"
Examples for "quibble"
1
He was right, of course, and there was no time to quibble.
The White Road
2
You're in no position to talk of rights or quibble about titles.
Lily of the Nile
3
There was barely a quibble about the charges during the information morning.
Independent.ie
4
The woman was too downright in her honesty to quibble or fence.
The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South
5
But it is needless to quibble at a definition of the term.
Literary Lapses
1
The Ontarian, in fact, did not object in a spirit of cavil.
The Young Seigneur / Or, Nation-Making
2
No one would cavil with the Cork Constitution, Munster and Ireland wing.
The Irish Times
3
The critics did not venture to cavil at his preaching to Gentiles.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
4
It then bore a better appearance, and was less open to cavil.
Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul
5
And while the critics may carp and cavil, they're not buying tickets.
Radio NZ
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
About this term
Translations for quiddity
Portuguese
falarchicanas
Quiddity through the time