haecceitic
/hɛkˈsiːətik/
haecceitic adjective: of or pertaining to haecceity.
Adjective
haecceitic
- 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/.
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