quiddity
Example Sentences
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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
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
Thereupon came the by-play of the Humorist—after the fashion of Munden, who, according to Charles Lamb, "understood a leg of mutton in its quiddity."
From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Kent, Charles Foster
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
