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haecceitic

/hɛkˈsiːətik/

haecceitic adjective: of or pertaining to haecceity.

Adjective

haecceitic

  1. Of or pertaining to haecceity.
    • But that's what I mean, Everett's friends are all tired grey businessmen or engineers or something, and Francine's all seem to be mumbling poets with pimply necks, God it's all so – so haecceitic. I could've gone to Nassau ...1983, John Sladek, Roderick at Random, or, Further Education of a Young Machine, London, New York, N.Y.: Granada, →ISBN
    • Anyhow, the haecceitic individual would argue, as [John] Rawls would say, in virtue of his haecceitic identity alone. Sans qualities envy can neither be attributed nor imputed to him; he is nonanvious [sic: nonenvious?].1998, A. Pampapathy Rao, Distributive Justice: A Third-world Response to Rawls and Nozick, San Francisco, Calif.: International Scholars Publications, →ISBN, page 62

Origin of haecceitic

From haecceity + -ic.

Questions about haecceitic

What does haecceitic mean?
Haecceitic means of or pertaining to haecceity.
What part of speech is haecceitic?
Haecceitic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce haecceitic?
Haecceitic is pronounced /hɛkˈsiːətik/.

Words near haecceitic in the dictionary

  1. Hadzovic
  2. hae
  3. hae mee
  4. Haebich
  5. haecceitas
  6. haecceitic
  7. haecceities
  8. haecceitism
  9. haecceitist
  10. haecceitistic
  11. haecceitistically

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