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Oct 31, 2008
This week's themeContranyms, or words with an opposite set of meanings. This week's words cleave continuance asperse copemate quiddity This week's comments AWADmail 331 Next week's theme Prepositions 
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with Anu GargquiddityPRONUNCIATION:
(KWID-i-tee)
MEANING:
noun:1. The essence of someone or something. 2. A trifling point. ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin quid (what), which also gave us quidnunc
and quid pro quo.
USAGE:
"Pondering this reversal of fortune, Anicius Manlius Boethius composed
a soliloquy in which, queried by Philosophy as to his quiddity, he
replied: 'I am a man, a rational and mortal animal.'"Alvin Moore Jr.; The Noble Traveler; Parabola (New York); Jun 1996. "Any kind of lackadaisical activity, any sort of diverting quiddity to take a person's mind off mundane, everyday, small-change troubles." Guy Friddell; Perfect Day is Fine Excuse For Lackadaisical Activity; The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Virginia); May 27, 2004. See more usage examples of quiddity in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Conscience is the still, small voice which tells a candidate that what he is doing is likely to lose him votes. -Anonymous
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