QUIDDITIES Synonyms

• basic and fundamental

• being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc

• defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established

• anything indispensable

• absolutely necessary; vitally necessary

• of the greatest importance

• marked by elaborately complex detail

• a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude

• a fact about some part (as opposed to general)

• a small part that can be considered separately from the whole

• (logic) a proposition that asserts something about some (but not all) members of a class

• unique or specific to a person or thing or category

• separate and distinct from others of the same group or category

• surpassing what is common or usual or expected

• first and most important

• exacting especially about details

• providing specific details or circumstances

• (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique

• relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species

• being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides

• a fact about some part (as opposed to general)

• a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease

• stated explicitly or in detail

• a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude

• the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze

• an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

• raise trivial objections

• the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other

• the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized

• a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe

• the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.

• the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions

• a particular type of thing

• an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

• evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections

• argue over petty things

• the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies

• the purest and most concentrated essence of something

• the most typical example or representative of a type