quiddity
Example Sentences
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Ample quotations from Hardwick allow her restless quiddity to come through.
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2021
And that may have sounded like a compliment to a playful media class, but quiddity is identity.
From The Guardian • Mar. 3, 2020
As always, Herzog tries to remold his subject into an honorary Herzogian, all quirk and quiddity.
From The New Yorker • May 3, 2019
Sapped of quiddity, she has become “an all-American girl.”
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2016
In this region of the Porta Capuana one sees the people in what Charles Lamb would have called its quiddity.
From Naples Past and Present by Norway, Arthur H.
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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