quiddity

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

I think that he is right, and that the profitable study of a man is the study which regards him as an oddity, not a quiddity.

From Romance Two Lectures by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

“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

Indeed, all his personal and artistic quiddities are backed by a natural robustness of temperament which smacks of his native Lancashire, still strongly accented in his speech.

From Time Magazine Archive

The measuring-reed of science is to be laid to the heavens, the solar system is to be weighed in a balance; the age of logical quiddities has passed, the age of mathematical quantities has come.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various