Definition of nitty-gritty Nitty-gritty
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What does nitty-gritty mean?
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| nitty-gritty - the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" | ||
| kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum | ||
| cognitive content, mental object, content the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned | ||
| bare bones (plural) the most basic facts or elements; "he told us only the bare bones of the story" | ||
| hypostasis (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality | ||
| haecceity, quiddity the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other | ||
| quintessence the most typical example or representative of a type | ||
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