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quoddities

quoddities is the plural of quoddity.

Meaning of quoddity

Noun

quoddity (plural quoddities)

  1. The individual identity of something.
    • They have ſwallowed and digeſted all the Fathers, the Codes, Provincials, Decretals, Pandects, Councils, Canons ; are Maſters of all the Schoolmen, not to fill their Heads and ſtuff their Writings with Quiddities and Quoddities, and far-fetched unintelligible Diſtinctions, but to be able to reaſon...1744, A Dialogue Between the Rev. Mr. Jenkin Evans and Mr. Peter Dobson, concerning Bishops., London: M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-noſter-row, →OCLC, page 37
    Synonyms:
    thatness

Questions about quoddities

What is quoddities the plural of?
Quoddities is the plural of quoddity.

Words near quoddities in the dictionary

  1. quod non
  2. quod nons
  3. quodded
  4. quoddies
  5. quodding
  6. quoddities
  7. quoddity
  8. quoddy
  9. quodilibet
  10. quodlibet
  11. quodlibetal

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