QUIDDITATIVE

PRONUNCIATION: (KUI-di-tay-tiv)

MEANING: adjective: Relating to the essential nature of something or someone.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin quid (what), which also gave us quidnunc, quid pro quo, and quiddity. Earliest documented use: 1600.
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"QUIDDIT!" ACTIVE - an unmistakable order to stop

SQUIDDITATIVE - behaving like a tentacled marine cephalopod

QUADDITATIVE - transforming into a four-part entity