Definitions for quiddity

quiddity quid·di·ty

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

Quiddity is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in quiddity (ddiiqtuy).

Definitions for quiddity

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 quiddity

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

Examples for quiddity

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Word Value for quiddity
Scrable

22

Words with friends

22

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