quiddity

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

And that may have sounded like a compliment to a playful media class, but quiddity is identity.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 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

It was not for want of an exemplar, for although Fra Palamone sweated as he lied, it would be impossible to relate the quantity, the quality or quiddity of his lies.

From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

“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

Once her eye adjusted to the determined quiddities of her adopted hometown, she said, “Even weird cinder-block strange things from the 1950s started to look fabulous.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2015

Despite these quirks and quiddities, when Stonewall Jackson fell, mortally wounded by his own men in the confusion of battle at Chancellorsville, the last hope of the Confederacy fell with him.

From Time Magazine Archive

What but subtleties of the Scotists: quiddities, formalities, etc.!

From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan