英语词汇“quiddity”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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When a politician avoids answering a question while pretending to answer it, he often does it using quiddity, or by bringing up irrelevant and distracting points.

Quiddity is a usefully sneaky tool if you want to evade an argument or question, and it's often used by people like lawyers in court and teenagers angling for later curfews. The noun quiddity has a philosophical meaning too, "the essential nature of something," or the unique thing that makes it what it is. The Medieval Latin root, quidditas, translates literally as "whatness."

WORD FAMILY

quiddity: quiddities

USAGE EXAMPLES

Beautifying asphalt would seem to be no cinch, but the naked quiddity of the stuff, after a third or fourth look, turns cherishable.

The New Yorker(Mar 21, 2016)

He wrestles their visual quiddities—how they look, irrespective of what they represent—down into the body and makes them groan.

The New Yorker(Jun 15, 2015)

And so The Quiddity of Will Self also plays games with gender.

The Guardian(Mar 20, 2013)

n the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other

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haecceity

center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum

the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

n an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

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cavil, quibble

equivocation, evasion

a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

单词	quiddity
释义	quiddity (once / 46903 pages) 1n 2n When a politician avoids answering a question while pretending to answer it, he often does it using quiddity, or by bringing up irrelevant and distracting points. Quiddity is a usefully sneaky tool if you want to evade an argument or question, and it's often used by people like lawyers in court and teenagers angling for later curfews. The noun quiddity has a philosophical meaning too, "the essential nature of something," or the unique thing that makes it what it is. The Medieval Latin root, quidditas, translates literally as "whatness." WORD FAMILY quiddity: quiddities USAGE EXAMPLES Beautifying asphalt would seem to be no cinch, but the naked quiddity of the stuff, after a third or fourth look, turns cherishable. The New Yorker(Mar 21, 2016) He wrestles their visual quiddities—how they look, irrespective of what they represent—down into the body and makes them groan. The New Yorker(Jun 15, 2015) And so The Quiddity of Will Self also plays games with gender. The Guardian(Mar 20, 2013) 1 n the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other Syn\|Hyper haecceity center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience 2 n an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections Syn\|Hyper cavil, quibble equivocation, evasion a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
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