Associations to the word «Quiddity»
Noun
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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.
Dictionary definition
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.
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.