Thesaurus: quiddity

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1. n. The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it?
2. n. A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble.
3. n. an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
4. n. the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other
5. 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.
6. n. the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other