English-Thai Dictionary

quiddity

N สิ่ง สำคัญ  แก่นแท้  quibble siang-sam-kan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

QUIDDIT

n.[L. quidlibet.] A subtilty; an equivocation. [Not in use. ]

 

QUIDDITY

n.[L. quid, what. ] 1. A barbarous term used in school philosophy for essence, that unknown and undefinable something which constitutes its peculiar nature, or answers the question, quidest? The essence of a thing constitutes it tale quid, such a thing as it is, and not another.
2. A trifling nicety; a cavil; a captious question.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

QUIDDIT

Quid "dit, n. Etym: [Cf. Quiddity, Quillet, and Quibble. ]

 

Defn: A subtilty; an equivocation. [Obs. ] Shak. By some strange quiddit or some wrested clause. Drayton.

 

QUIDDITATIVE

QUIDDITATIVE Quid "di *ta *tive, a.

 

Defn: Quiddative.

 

QUIDDITY

Quid "di *ty, n.; pl. Quiddities. Etym: [LL. quidditas, fr. L. quid what, neut. of quis who, akin to E. who: cf. F. quiddité.]

 

1. The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est or, What is it " The degree of nullity and quiddity. " Bacon. The quiddity or characteristic difference of poetry as distinguished from prose. De Quincey.

 

2. A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble. We laugh at the quiddities of those writers now. Coleridge.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

quiddity

quid di ty |ˈkwidətē ˌkwɪdɪdi | ▶noun ( pl. quiddities ) chiefly Philosophy the inherent nature or essence of someone or something. • a distinctive feature; a peculiarity: his quirks and quiddities. ORIGIN late Middle English: from medieval Latin quidditas, from Latin quid ‘what. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

quiddity

quiddity |ˈkwɪdɪti | ▶noun ( pl. quiddities ) 1 [ mass noun ] chiefly Philosophy the inherent nature or essence of someone or something. 2 a distinctive feature; a peculiarity: his quirks and quiddities. ORIGIN late Middle English: from medieval Latin quidditas, from Latin quid ‘what ’.

 

Duden Dictionary

Quiddität

Quid di tät Substantiv, feminin , die |Quiddit ä t |die Quiddität; Genitiv: der Quiddität, Plural: die Quidditäten lateinisch-mittellateinisch die »Washeit «, das Wesen eines Dinges in der Scholastik