quiddity

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkwɪdɪti/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The essence or inherent nature of a person or thing. countable,uncountable
    — A tub of butter, contemplated by him, amounts to a Platonic idea. He understands a leg of mutton in its quiddity. He stands wondering, amid the commonplace materials of life, like primæval man, with the sun and stars about him.
  2. A trifle; a nicety or quibble. countable,uncountable
  3. An eccentricity; an odd feature. countable,uncountable
    — They have ſwallowed and digeſted all the Fathers, the Codes, Provincials, Decretals, Pandects, Councils, Canons ; are Maſters of all the Schoolmen, not to fill their Heads and ſtuff their Writings with Quiddities and Quoddities, and far-fetched unintelligible Diſtinctions, but to be able to reaſon cloſely, to argue ſolidly, to rebuke, to confute, to reply, to rejoind, to ſyllogize, to criticize, to apologize, to advertize, to ſermonize, to decypherize, to――

词形变化

quiddities plural

词汇关系

近义词
quintessence whatness
衍生词
quidditative quidditism
相关词
in .
并列词
quoddity

词源

From Middle English quidite, from Old French quidité, and its source, Late Latin quidditās, from Latin quid (“what”) + -itas (“-ness”) (whence -ity).
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