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Quiddity
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<p>In <a href="/facts/Scholasticism/8AWMNsgV">scholastic philosophy</a>, "quiddity" was another term for the <a href="/facts/Essence/X1uqmlSm">essence</a> of an object, literally its "whatness" or "what it is". </p>