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 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
“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
Here’s an irony: if anything preserves the unnerving quiddity and strangeness of the Japanese movie, it is Johansson.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 31, 2017
He could reduce all things to acts, And knew their natures by abstracts; Where entity and quiddity, The ghost of defunct bodies, fly; Where Truth in person does appear, Like words congealed in northern air.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
