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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -quiddity-, *quiddity*
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English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates]
quiddity(n) สิ่งสำคัญ, See also: แก่นแท้, Syn. quibble

WordNet (3.0)
quiddity(n) the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other, Syn. haecceity
quibble(n) an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections, Syn. cavil, quiddity

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Quiddity

n.; pl. Quiddities [ LL. quidditas, fr. L. quid what, neut. of quis who, akin to E. who: cf. F. quiddité. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The quiddity or characteristic difference of poetry as distinguished from prose. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble. [ 1913 Webster ]

We laugh at the quiddities of those writers now. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

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