sum vs quiddity

quiddity vs sum

sum and quiddity both are nouns.

sum is a verb but quiddity is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sum	Yes	No	Yes	No
quiddity	Yes	No	No	No

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

sum: 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 sum include bare bones, hypostasis, haecceity, quintessence, stuff.

sum (noun)	quiddity (noun)
the whole amount	the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other
the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience	an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
the final aggregate
a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
a quantity of money

sum (verb)	quiddity (verb)
determine the sum of
be a summary of

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