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
He used his repertoire of gestures honed from years of doing caricatures not to generalise about a face, to fix it for all time, but to capture its quiddity.
From The Guardian • Sep. 30, 2016
Sapped of quiddity, she has become “an all-American girl.”
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2016
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
There you indeed appreciate the dead-alive city 'in all its quiddity.'
From A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
