quintessentiality
quintessentiality noun: the quality of being quintessential.
Noun
quintessentiality (countable and uncountable, plural quintessentialities)
- The quality of being quintessential.
- Every corner therefore was crowded, save only that one box which, as in a microcosm, is wont to contain the very quintessentiality of the fashion and ton of London.1835, Lady Sydney Morgan, The Princess; or, The Beguine, Volume 1, R. Bentley, pages 5-6
- At all events, the spirit of these great fathers of the first philosophy was upon him, and Humbughausen was a concentrated quintessentiality of them all,—one, to whom dreaming was a natural condition; one who, while his external senses were proof against the rudest impressions, could do so much...1838, The New Monthly Magazine 1838-07: Volume 53, Issue 211, Open Court Publishing Company, page 304
- Something that is quintessential.
Examples of quintessentiality in a sentence
- The ability to rule, the power to stand alone and to swing the club, the power to take and, having taken, to keep, was the very quintessentiality of his existence.1905, Arthur Wellington Brayley, Arthur Wilson Tarbell, Joseph Mitchell Chapple, National Magazine, Volume 22, Issue 6, Bostonian...
- We have heard so much about the sins of big business that we have come to regard little business as the quintessentiality of innocent martyrdom.1915, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, page 580:
Forms of quintessentiality
| plural | quintessentialities |
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Origin of quintessentiality
From quintessential + -ity.
Questions about quintessentiality
- What does quintessentiality mean?
- Quintessentiality means the quality of being quintessential.
- How do you use quintessentiality in a sentence?
- The ability to rule, the power to stand alone and to swing the club, the power to take and, having taken, to keep, was the very quintessentiality of his existence.
- What part of speech is quintessentiality?
- Quintessentiality is a noun.
- What is the plural of quintessentiality?
- The plural of quintessentiality is quintessentialities.
Words near quintessentiality in the dictionary
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