When a politician avoids answering a question while pretending to answer it, he often does it using quiddity, or by bringing up irrelevant and distracting points.
The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it?
Noun
the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other
Noun
an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
n.
The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a
thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it?
n.
A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble.
Quiddity
The quiddity or characteristic difference of poetry as distinguished from prose.2.
We laugh at the quiddities of those writers now.
The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it?
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