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as in trick
an odd or peculiar habit
for all of her quiddities, she is a very wise and generous lady
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as in essence
the quality or qualities that make a thing what it is
Rembrandt's genius was his unparalleled ability to render a person's quiddity in a single portrait
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Recent Examples of quiddity
Or: The matter of their mattering is what’s put into contention, as their material quiddity serves as a means for activating a dynamic contrast with the space around them.
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Travis Jeppesen,
Artforum,
19 Aug. 2024
The task was to find the spiritual quiddity of God’s gifts in nature, piece by piece, and to assemble them into a divine whole.
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Zachary Fine,
The New Yorker,
28 June 2024
Teffi bids us to accept the mystery of this strange business of life in all its delightful quiddity.
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Sara Wheeler,
WSJ,
23 Apr. 2021
None of these quiddities has much to do with efficient military training.
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Steele Brand,
Time,
20 Sep. 2019
Our skulls are like space helmets; we are trapped in our heads, unable to convey the quiddity of our sensations.
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Jason Pontin,
WIRED,
16 Apr. 2018
Travis Jeppesen,
Artforum,
19 Aug. 2024
The task was to find the spiritual quiddity of God’s gifts in nature, piece by piece, and to assemble them into a divine whole.
—
Zachary Fine,
The New Yorker,
28 June 2024
Teffi bids us to accept the mystery of this strange business of life in all its delightful quiddity.
—
Sara Wheeler,
WSJ,
23 Apr. 2021
None of these quiddities has much to do with efficient military training.
—
Steele Brand,
Time,
20 Sep. 2019
Our skulls are like space helmets; we are trapped in our heads, unable to convey the quiddity of our sensations.
—
Jason Pontin,
WIRED,
16 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quiddity
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Artists and couturiers are fond of the whimsy of trompe l’oeil, the trick of the eye, the illusion of reality.
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Cohesion is the trick, and color does most of the work.
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Some pastimes are distractions, some are distortions, and some few are true distillations—refining a city or a place or a community to its essence, deliciously sipped by all.
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Like the catchphrase to the Wide World of Sports broadcast that first enthralled Hunt with the World Cup, this was the essence of the thrill of victory contrasting, alas, with the agony of defeat.
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By nature of Darwinism, insects resistant to certain controls often breed and multiply in a garden, passing on that resistance as a genetic trait.
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Charles Darwin also proposed that intersexual selection involved females evaluating and choosing males with whom to mate based on specific traits, such as a colorful peacock plumage.
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Haney painted the prosecution’s case as heavy on circumstance but light on substance.
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Public relations first, substance second and winning will magically come if the baseball gods grant it.
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Those characteristics could make the biochar useful beyond fuel applications.
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Though every case is unique, based on those that the NCMEC has tracked, there are some common characteristics among individuals who carry out fetal abductions, Steinbach says.
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The injuries ranged from minor to serious in nature, the highway patrol said in its release.
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The taxing nature of executive roles, coupled with constant travel, high decision volumes, and immense stress, necessitates robust physical capacity.
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Anta Claus is spilling over with character flaws, idiosyncrasies, jealousy and frustration.
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There’s an intrinsic pleasure in seeing filmmakers grow both older and weirder, yielding to their personal idiosyncrasies and obsessions, taking wild chances in pursuit of their passions.
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Expanding on the character designs, Hirota underlined the quirky looks and the singularity of his artistic direction, directly inspired by child’s play and faulty craft.
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According to general relativity, in a rotating black hole, the singularity—the theoretical point of infinite density at the center—is really a one-dimensional ring, with closed timelike curves arcing around it.
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“Quiddity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quiddity. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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