quiddity
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Ample quotations from Hardwick allow her restless quiddity to come through.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 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
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
Not a little terrified, they are chased in by the crowd, who bid them "banish your timidity and with all rapidity give us quip and quiddity."
From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Henry A. Lytton
Managers, doormen and valets, with their quiddities and quirks, help set the tone for the singular ecosystem that is any given apartment building, as Mr. Soffer, the banker, explained.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2020
“When you homogenize a city, you destroy its feeling of urbanity,” Ms. Schulman said, referring to the banks and drugstores and chains retailers steadily wallpapering over the city’s indispensable quiddities.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2020
Whatever is going on, whatever misalliances and misdelving of quiddities we get into, the human heart is still beating in the same way in everybody’s chest.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2016
To the business man, these oddities and quiddities of freight rates are no mystery.
From Time Magazine Archive
I knew thou wast in the neighbourhood, and I would unravel a few arguments with thee; a few quiddities about thy profession.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
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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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