quintessentiality

English

Etymology

From quintessential +‎ -ity.

Noun

quintessentiality (countable and uncountable, plural quintessentialities)

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being quintessential.
    • 1835, Lady Sydney Morgan, The Princess; or, The Beguine, Volume 1‎[1], R. Bentley, pages 5-6:
      Every corner therefore was crowded, save only that one box which, as in a microcosm, is wont to contain the very quintessentiality of the fashion and ton of London.
    • 1838, The New Monthly Magazine 1838-07: Volume 53, Issue 211‎[2], Open Court Publishing Company, page 304:
      At all events, the spirit of these great fathers of the first philosophy was upon him, and Humbughausen was a concentrated quintessentiality of them all,—one, to whom dreaming was a natural condition; one who, while his external senses were proof against the rudest impressions, could do so much better without them, as to be intuitively conversant not only with all actual, but all possible existence.
    • 1905, Arthur Wellington Brayley, Arthur Wilson Tarbell, Joseph Mitchell Chapple, National Magazine, Volume 22, Issue 6‎[3], Bostonian Publishing Company, Chapple Publishing Company, page 677:
      The ability to rule, the power to stand alone and to swing the club, the power to take and, having taken, to keep, was the very quintessentiality of his existence.
    • 1915, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Times‎[4], Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, page 580:
      We have heard so much about the sins of big business that we have come to regard little business as the quintessentiality of innocent martyrdom.
    • 1970, David Ewen, From Bach to Stravinsky: The History of music by Its Foremost Critics‎[5], AMS Press, page 300:
      It instigates, begins, leaves off, and then continues, rousiag to action the hearer’s innate need of an aim and an order and meaning in things. Its subtle gestures, its brief, sharp, delicate phrases, its quintessentiality, are like the thrusting open of doors into the interiors of the conscience, the opening of windows on long vistas, are like the breaking of light upon obscured memories and buried emotions.
  2. (countable) Something that is quintessential.
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