3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Quiddity \Quid"di*ty\, n.; pl. {Quiddities}. [LL. quidditas, fr. L. quid what, neut. of quis who, akin to E. who: cf. F. quiddit['e].] 1. The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it? " The degree of nullity and quiddity." --Bacon. [1913 Webster] The quiddity or characteristic difference of poetry as distinguished from prose. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster] 2. A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble. [1913 Webster] We laugh at the quiddities of those writers now. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: quiddity n 1: an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections [syn: {quibble}, {cavil}] 2: the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other [syn: {haecceity}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 40 Moby Thesaurus words for "quiddity": axiom, cavil, center, core, dodge, elixir, essence, essential, flower, focus, fundamental, gist, gravamen, heart, hypostasis, inner essence, jesuitism, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, nucleus, nuts and bolts, pith, postulate, principle, quibble, quid, quillet, quintessence, quip, quirk, quodlibet, sap, shuffle, soul, spirit, stuff, substance, the nitty-gritty
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