Quibble vs Quiddity - What's the difference?
quibble | quiddity |
A trivial or minor complaint, objection or argument.
A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; a cavil.
* I. Watts
(obsolete) A pun.
To complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner.
(philosophy) The essence or inherent nature of a person or thing.
* 1822 , October, (Charles Lamb), The Old Actors'', published in ''London Magazine , section on “Mr. Munden” (
* 1962 , (Vladimir Nabokov), Pale Fire :
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 352:
(legal) A trifle; a nicety or quibble.
An eccentricity; an odd feature.
As nouns the difference between quibble and quiddity
is that quibble is a trivial or minor complaint, objection or argument while quiddity is (philosophy) the essence or inherent nature of a person or thing.As a verb quibble
is to complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner.quibble
English
Noun
(en noun)- He harped on his quibble about how the dark red paint should be described as carmine rather than burgundy.
- Quibbles have no place in the search after truth.
Synonyms
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(quibbl)- They are constantly quibbling over insignificant details.
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quiddity
English
(wikipedia quiddity)Noun
(quiddities)ebook):
- A tub of butter, contemplated by him, amounts to a Platonic idea. He understands a leg of mutton in its quiddity . He stands wondering, amid the commonplace materials of life, like primæval man, with the sun and stars about him.
- My vision reeked with truth. It had the tone,
- The quiddity and quaintness of its own
- Reality.
- He represented my quiddity I suppose – the part which, thanks to you, has converted a black pessimism about life into a belief in cosmic absurdity.
