“whatness”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

whatness

释义

whatness|ˈhwɒtnɪs|
[f. what pron. + -ness; transl. L. quidditās quiddity.]
That which makes a thing what it is; essential nature, essence: = quiddity 1.
1611Florio, Quidità, the whatnesse of any thing.1627W. Sclater Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 39 The kinde or quality, or if you'l so terme it, whatnesse of it.1656[? J. Sergeant] tr. T. White's Peripat. Inst. 198 The Understandablenesse of a thing, or the quiddity, the Whatnesse.1870Morley Stud. Lit. (1891) 266 Pressing for definition, you never get much further than that each given quiddity means a certain Whatness.1889Mivart Truth 212 We must..have the conception of the kind of thing the object is—‘what’ it is, or the idea of its ‘whatness’.
†b. Used by N. Fairfax for: Statement of what a thing is, definition. Obs. nonce-use.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 80 The definition or whatness of a thing ought to be of a thing as a thing.

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