Thisness – the essence and particularity of an individual thing – what a term haecceity is, the opposite of quiddity, a common shared whatness among a class of things.

How wonderful to have the right words for such essential concepts!

(cf Ode Less Traveled (2006-12-18, Nabokov on Bleak House (2007-06-26), ...) - ^z - 2023-04-01