differentia

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Genus and differentia are found in every good definition.

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)

The differentia of aesthetic pleasure not its universality.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George

Swift and Chatterton, with all their vast talents, wanted, we think, the fine differentia, and the genial element of real poetic genius.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

To quote the differentia of Sir Oliver Lodge: “A solid has volume and shape; a liquid has volume, but no shape; a gas has neither volume nor shape.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

Disinterestedness not the differentia of aesthetic pleasure, 37 et seq.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George