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
As always, Herzog tries to remold his subject into an honorary Herzogian, all quirk and quiddity.
From The New Yorker • May 3, 2019
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
But his power of observation and of p. 3seeing what might be termed the humorous quiddity of anything, was extraordinary.
From Bardell v. Pickwick by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.