Since haec is the Latin term for this, Scotus and his disciples came to refer to this positive additive that individuates an individual's nature or distinctive qualities as that individual's unique or proper haecceity (haecceitas). Haecceity or thisness has a twofold function: (1) it makes each individual unique and incapable of duplication, even by an omnipotent God; and (2) it differentiates it radically and ultimately from each and every other individual, whether it be of the same or a specially different type.

People who want teeth whiter than nature intended, reaching repeatedly for the peroxide, suffer from bleachorexia, a word coined by the American Dental Association.

Let no man be less confident in his faith […] by reason of any difference of judgment , which is in the several schools of Christians.

It was then just founded as a proseminary for St. John's college Oxford