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
Nature herself is MAYA; natural science must perforce deal with her ineluctable quiddity.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
