Word of the Day - August 23, 2024

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QUIDDITY

• refers to the essence of a thingthat is, whatever makes something the type of thing that it is.
• the essential nature of a thing.
• the inherent nature of something, also QUIDDIT [n QUIDDITIES]
• the quality that makes a thing what it is; the essential nature of a thing
• the true nature of a thing [n QUIDDITIES]
• trifling nicety of subtle distinction, as in argument
• whatever makes something the type that it is essence.