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
As always, Herzog tries to remold his subject into an honorary Herzogian, all quirk and quiddity.
From The New Yorker • May 3, 2019
He used his repertoire of gestures honed from years of doing caricatures not to generalise about a face, to fix it for all time, but to capture its quiddity.
From The Guardian • Sep. 30, 2016
Sapped of quiddity, she has become “an all-American girl.”
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2016
It is not too much to say that Fitz, with all his quiddity, had become dear to us.
From Mrs. Fitz by Snaith, J. C.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
