Associations to the word «Quiddity»

Wiktionary

QUIDDITY, noun. (philosophy) The essence or inherent nature of a person or thing.

QUIDDITY, noun. (legal) A trifle; a nicety or quibble.

QUIDDITY, noun. An eccentricity; an odd feature.

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

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

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Winston Churchill