quiddity – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
מילים נרדפות: evasion,
equivocation,
substance,
heart and soul,
center,
nitty-gritty,
core,
gist,
kernel,
marrow,
nub,
essence,
meat,
heart,
inwardness,
pith,
sum
quiddity
n.
essential nature of a thing; trivial point of contention
Quiddity
In
scholastic philosophy,
quiddity (;
Latin:
quidditas) was another term for the
essence of an object, literally its "whatness" or "what it is". The term derives from the Latin word
quidditas, which was used by the medieval scholastics as a literal translation of the equivalent term in
Aristotle's
Greek to ti ên einai (τὸ τί ἦν εἶναι) or "the what it was to be (a given thing)".
quiddity
Noun
1. an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
(synonym) quibble, cavil
(hypernym) evasion, equivocation
2. the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other
(synonym) haecceity
(hypernym) kernel, substance, core, center, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty
Quiddity
(n.)
The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it?
(n.)
A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
quiddity
n.
1.
خاصہ, سبھاؤ, وجہ امتياز, خاصيت, ماہيت,
2.
بيہودہ, باريک بيني, عيب جوئي, سخن
