differentia

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Musset, who was very much of a free-lance in the contest, maintained indeed that the differentia of the Romantic was the copious use of this part of speech.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

Not a little error has resulted from the confusion of thought whereby genus and differentia have been regarded as material and formal constitutives in the literal sense of those expressions.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

The qualities which this general differentia has developed in French may now be enumerated.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

The attribute or attributes whereby a species is distinguished from other species of the same genus, is called its differentia or differentiæ.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

To quote the differentia of Sir Oliver Lodge: “A solid has volume and shape; a liquid has volume, but no shape; a gas has neither volume nor shape.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various