quiddity

1 It is not too much to say that Fitz, with all his quiddity, had become dear to us.

2 I knew thou wast in the neighbourhood, and I would unravel a few arguments with thee; a few quiddities about thy profession.

3 Thereupon came the by-play of the Humorist—after the fashion of Munden, who, according to Charles Lamb, "understood a leg of mutton in its quiddity."

4 Where then will be your gibes, your quips, your quiddities?

5 Teffi bids us to accept the mystery of this strange business of life in all its delightful quiddity.

6 But we are now speaking of nature as it signifies the essence, or the "what-it-is," or the quiddity of the species.

7 Managers, doormen and valets, with their quiddities and quirks, help set the tone for the singular ecosystem that is any given apartment building, as Mr. Soffer, the banker, explained.

8 Lyly delighted his readers with unexpected quips and quiddities, with a fantastic display of rhetoric; he showed, as no one had before him, the possible flexibility of English prose.

9 He would not have overthrown one of her quiddities for the world; it would be taking away a part of his capital in existence.

10 The way is simple and visual, the physical thinking of Huygens-Fresnel principle is incarnated fully, it helps to understand the quiddity of single slit Fraunhofer diffraction .

该方法简单、直观，充分体现了惠更斯-菲涅耳原理的物理思想，有助于更好地认识和理解单缝夫琅和费衍射的实质。

11 Our skulls are like space helmets; we are trapped in our heads, unable to convey the quiddity of our sensations.

12 Ample quotations from Hardwick allow her restless quiddity to come through.

13 Not a little terrified, they are chased in by the crowd, who bid them "banish your timidity and with all rapidity give us quip and quiddity."

14 But his power of observation and of p. 3seeing what might be termed the humorous quiddity of anything, was extraordinary.

15 And the reason of this is that this indivisible has a certain opposition to a corporeal being, the quiddity of which is the primary and proper object of the intellect.

16 And that may have sounded like a compliment to a playful media class, but quiddity is identity.

17 Banish your timidity, And with all rapidity Give us quip and quiddity— Willy-nilly, O!

18 Though Reed has never been a professional rider himself, he’s a sensitive writer about the quiddities of professional cycling.

19 Survila’s approach allows the animals their independence, a sense of their quiddity that respects their being.

20 How now, how now, mad wag! what, in thy quips and quiddities?

1 怪癖

quirk kink peculiarity foible trick twist oddity singularity eccentricity mannerism crotchet kooky screwball

2 显著特点

DNA

3 特性

thing property character nature touch aspect cast being attribute characteristic personality hue tang prerogative peculiarity idiosyncrasy quale -hood -ism

4 本质

essential internal organic intrinsic elemental temperamental constitutive hypostatic kind heart nature metal principle being identity juice substance fiber gut essence hypostasis inwardness Hardpan thisness inbeing suchness be all and end all nitty-gritty root quintessence rasa native formal substantial bottom spirit fabric texture entity material elementary intimate substantive entitative hypostatical stuff quick self implication inward predicate ingrain essentiality intimity true constitutional subjective innate bone constitution genius kernel yolk elixir virtuality substantiality hardpan esse inscape whatness

5 实质

substantial bodily body matter internal meat substance solidity parenchyma substantiality essentiality nitty-gritty heart nature essential root principle beef essence the name of the game material virtual hylic spirit texture gut quintessence hypostasis solid substantive force implication marrow hyle fundamental bottom existence gist virtuality whatness

6 狡辩

quibble chicanery chicane

7 诡辩

sophistic casuistical wordsplitting choplogic syllogism sophistry chicanery sophism legerdemain casuistry chicane sophistries philosophism pettifog casuistic sophistication sophisticate hairsplitting sophistical sleight-of-mouth quibble give a line

8 怪想法

kink

9 吹毛求疵

hair-splitting pernickety critical picky fastidious censorious hypercritical captious overcritical over-particular overnice nit-picking quibble vivisection fault-finding pettifog niggle

10 遁词

quip quibble subterfuge cop-out chicanery circumlocution

11 遁辞

out evasion quibble parry subterfuge runaround quirk quip circumlocution elusion quillet creep hole

12 挑剔

select fine dainty snippy uncharitable particularly quibble vivisection cavil fault-finding quarrel carp pettifog reprehend check fault crab peck at