Word of the Day: Quiddity meaning is the essential nature of something. It answers the question, what makes a thing what it is. Quiddity pronunciation is KWID-ih-tee. The word comes from Latin ...

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Long before the digital age, Jewish scholars in the medieval era were already creating networks of knowledge. Now, a Brown ...