Monday 5 July 2010

WoD - quiddity

quid·di·ty [kwid-i-tee]

–noun, plural -ties.
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:
1530–40; < ML quidditās, equiv. to L quid what + -itās

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