quiddity
Example Sentences
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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
“There is no way you can appreciate the quiddity of an elephant except by seeing one at close quarters,” he told the Observer.
From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2020
Here’s an irony: if anything preserves the unnerving quiddity and strangeness of the Japanese movie, it is Johansson.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 31, 2017
Sapped of quiddity, she has become “an all-American girl.”
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2016
Pressing for definition, you never get much further than that each given quiddity means a certain Whatness.
From Studies in Literature by Morley, John
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
