quiddity
英 ['kwɪdɪtɪ]
美['kwɪdɪti]
- n. 本质；实质；诡辩；怪癖
英英释意
- 1. an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
- 2. the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other