quiddity
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Ample quotations from Hardwick allow her restless quiddity to come through.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
And one of the few hopeful things I observed, in an otherwise grim time, was that, despite the advancing creep of retail sameness that long predated a pandemic, plenty of quiddity remained.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2021
And that may have sounded like a compliment to a playful media class, but quiddity is identity.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2020
Beautifying asphalt would seem to be no cinch, but the naked quiddity of the stuff, after a third or fourth look, turns cherishable.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2016
Nature herself is MAYA; natural science must perforce deal with her ineluctable quiddity.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
Managers, doormen and valets, with their quiddities and quirks, help set the tone for the singular ecosystem that is any given apartment building, as Mr. Soffer, the banker, explained.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2020
Whatever is going on, whatever misalliances and misdelving of quiddities we get into, the human heart is still beating in the same way in everybody’s chest.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2016
Once her eye adjusted to the determined quiddities of her adopted hometown, she said, “Even weird cinder-block strange things from the 1950s started to look fabulous.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2015
After Lord Desborough's introduction, embroidered with such quips and quiddities as all Yeomen of the guard insist on.
From Time Magazine Archive
He would not have overthrown one of her quiddities for the world; it would be taking away a part of his capital in existence.
From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Vocabulary lists containing quiddity
Two-Faced Words: Contronyms
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Henry IV, Part 1
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