Definitions for quiddities

quiddities quid·di·ty

Spelling: [kwid-i-tee]
IPA: /ˈkwɪd ɪ ti/

Quiddities is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 178 anagrams from letters in quiddities (ddeiiiqstu).

Definitions for quiddities

noun

  1. the quality that makes a thing what it is; the essential nature of a thing.
  2. a trifling nicety of subtle distinction, as in argument.

Origin of quiddities

1350-1400; Medieval Latin quidditās, equivalent to Latin quid what + -itās -ity

Examples for quiddities

There you indeed appreciate the dead-alive city 'in all its quiddity.'

Whatness and affections (quiddity) of being distinguishes between, ii.

On the next interview Mr. Mumbles, delighted with the report of quiddity, addressed him with truly dignified solemnity.

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.

Aristotle has thus shown how the Essence or quiddity (τί ἐστι) may become known in this class of cases.

The suchness of being implies a previously existing being and quiddity.

The lawyer's clerk, whose name was quiddity, also set about publishing the whole of the matter abroad.

Word Value for quiddities
Scrable

22

Words with friends

22

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