0 the basic nature or quality of something, that makes it different from other things:
Reading about a subculture like swimming provides an opportunity to appreciate the idiosyncratic details and quiddity of the sport.
Each of these representations adds to the quiddity an intention of universality or of particularity.
There is nothing in their quiddity and form that would individuate them.
It is what it is, in the quiddity of everyday action.
I agree with her that one should resist the temptation to be involved in captious quiddities about figures.
One longed for the quirks and quiddities of individual selection.
This quiddity can not be demonstrated, but must be fixed by a definition.
Together, these consist of its "quiddity" /essence.
