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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

axiom, cavil, center, core, dodge, elixir, essence, essential, flower, focus, fundamental, gist, gravamen, heart, hypostasis, inner essence, jesuitism, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, nucleus, nuts and bolts, pith, postulate, principle, quibble, quid, quillet, quintessence, quip, quirk, quodlibet, sap, shuffle, soul, spirit, stuff, substance, the nitty-gritty

Dictionary Results for quiddity:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

quiddity
    n 1: an evasion of the point of an argument by raising
         irrelevant distinctions or objections [syn: quibble,
         quiddity, cavil]
    2: the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and
       makes it different from any other [syn: quiddity,
       haecceity]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Quiddity \Quid"di*ty\, n.; pl. Quiddities. [LL. quidditas, fr.
   L. quid what, neut. of quis who, akin to E. who: cf. F.
   quiddit['e].]
   1. The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a
      thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What
      is it? " The degree of nullity and quiddity." --Bacon.
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            The quiddity or characteristic difference of poetry
            as distinguished from prose.          --De Quincey.
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   2. A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble.
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            We laugh at the quiddities of those writers now.
                                                  --Coleridge.
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