nitty-gritty vs quiddity

nitty-gritty and quiddity both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
nitty-gritty	Yes	No	No	No
quiddity	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, quiddity is a hyponym of nitty-gritty; that is, quiddity is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than nitty-gritty:

nitty-gritty: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
quiddity: the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other

Other hyponyms of nitty-gritty include bare bones, hypostasis, haecceity, quintessence, stuff.

nitty-gritty (noun)	quiddity (noun)
the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience	the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other
	an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

nitty-gritty vs quiddity

nitty-gritty and quiddity both are nouns.

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