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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Quiddity (0.01100 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Quiddity.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: quiddity
quiddity
n 1: an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant
distinctions or objections [syn:
quibble,
cavil]
2: the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and
makes it different from any other [syn:
haecceity]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Quiddity
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.
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The quiddity or characteristic difference of poetry
as distinguished from prose. --De Quincey.
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2. A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble.
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We laugh at the quiddities of those writers now.
--Coleridge.
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