quality
NOUN:
1. an essential, distinctive, or distinguishing characteristic, property, or attribute:
the chemical qualities of alcohol; possesses many fine qualities.
2. character or nature, as belonging to or distinguishing a thing; the basic character or nature of something:
the quality of a sound.
3. character with respect to fineness, or grade of excellence:
food of poor quality; silks of fine quality.
4. high grade; superiority; (native) excellence:
wood grain of quality.
5. a personality or character trait:
kindness is one of her many good qualities.
6. an accomplishment or attainment.
7. (a person of) good or high social position:
a man of quality; she's quality, that one is.
8. the superiority or distinction associated with high social position.
9. social status, rank, or position.
10. a trait or feature of personality.
11. degree or standard of excellence, esp a high standard.
12. (formerly) high social status or the distinction associated with it.
13. peculiar and essential character; nature:
her ethereal quality. —Gay Talese.
14. an inherent feature; property:
had a quality of stridence, dissonance. —Roald Dahl.
15. capacity, role:
in the quality of reader and companion. —Joseph Conrad.
16. degree of excellence; grade:
the quality of competing air service. —Current Biography.
17. superiority in kind:
merchandise of quality.
18. aristocracy.
19. the attribute of an elementary sensation that makes it fundamentally unlike any other sensation.
Examples:
Honesty is a desirable quality. // Stubbornness is one of his bad qualities.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English qualite < Old French < Latin quālitās, equivalent to quāl(is) of what sort + -itās -ity. C13: from Old French qualité, from Latin quālitās state, nature, from quālis of what sort. —Dictionary.com. // First Known Use: Noun: 14th century. Adjective: 1936. History and Etymology: Noun: Middle English qualite, from Anglo-French qualité, from Latin qualitat-, qualitas, from qualis of what kind; akin to Latin qui who — more at who. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
Updated: 3 July 2020 {5:35 PM}
1. an essential, distinctive, or distinguishing characteristic, property, or attribute:
the chemical qualities of alcohol; possesses many fine qualities.
2. character or nature, as belonging to or distinguishing a thing; the basic character or nature of something:
the quality of a sound.
3. character with respect to fineness, or grade of excellence:
food of poor quality; silks of fine quality.
4. high grade; superiority; (native) excellence:
wood grain of quality.
5. a personality or character trait:
kindness is one of her many good qualities.
6. an accomplishment or attainment.
7. (a person of) good or high social position:
a man of quality; she's quality, that one is.
8. the superiority or distinction associated with high social position.
9. social status, rank, or position.
10. a trait or feature of personality.
11. degree or standard of excellence, esp a high standard.
12. (formerly) high social status or the distinction associated with it.
13. peculiar and essential character; nature:
her ethereal quality. —Gay Talese.
14. an inherent feature; property:
had a quality of stridence, dissonance. —Roald Dahl.
15. capacity, role:
in the quality of reader and companion. —Joseph Conrad.
16. degree of excellence; grade:
the quality of competing air service. —Current Biography.
17. superiority in kind:
merchandise of quality.
18. aristocracy.
19. the attribute of an elementary sensation that makes it fundamentally unlike any other sensation.
Examples:
Honesty is a desirable quality. // Stubbornness is one of his bad qualities.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English qualite < Old French < Latin quālitās, equivalent to quāl(is) of what sort + -itās -ity. C13: from Old French qualité, from Latin quālitās state, nature, from quālis of what sort. —Dictionary.com. // First Known Use: Noun: 14th century. Adjective: 1936. History and Etymology: Noun: Middle English qualite, from Anglo-French qualité, from Latin qualitat-, qualitas, from qualis of what kind; akin to Latin qui who — more at who. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
Updated: 3 July 2020 {5:35 PM}