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ecceity

ecceity is the alternative form of haecceity.

Meaning of haecceity

Noun

haecceity (countable and uncountable, plural haecceities)

  1. The essence of a particular thing that gives it its unique particularity; those qualities that make an individual this specific individual and not some other.
    • He [Ignatius of Loyola] ſaith not this of ſome one Church, but of all; nor yet as of an accident proper to thoſe times of the Churches minority; but as of the Notes of every Churches Individuation or Hæcceity as they ſpeak. The Unity of the Church is characteriſed by One Altar, and One Biſhop with...1681, Richard Baxter, Church-history of the Government of Bishops and their Councils Abbreviated. Including the Chief Part of the Government of Christian Princes and Popes, and a True Account of the...
    Synonyms:
    thisness

Forms of ecceity

pluralecceities

Questions about ecceity

What is ecceity the alternative form of?
Ecceity is the alternative form of haecceity.

Words near ecceity in the dictionary

  1. ecce
  2. ecce homo
  3. ecce homos
  4. Ecce Mono
  5. eccedentesiast
  6. ecceity
  7. eccenteric
  8. eccentric
  9. eccentric abstraction
  10. eccentric anomalies
  11. eccentric anomaly

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