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 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
Sapped of quiddity, she has become “an all-American girl.”
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2016
It is not in man's power to define the quiddity of the elements, but a great many of their effects are known.
From Thoughts on Art and Life by Leonardo da Vinci
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
