English > quality: 7 senses > noun 1, attribute| Meaning | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone. |
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| Example | "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare |
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| Attributes | bad | Having undesirable or negative qualities |
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| good | Having desirable / desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified |
| negative | Characterized by or displaying negation or denial / denial or opposition or resistance |
| positive | Characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc. |
| Narrower | ability | The quality of being able to perform |
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| accuracy, truth | The quality of being near to the true value |
| accuracy | (mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number |
| air, aura, atmosphere | A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing |
| amorality | The quality of being amoral |
| appearance, visual aspect | outward or visible aspect of a person or thing |
| arability | The quality of land that is appropriate for cultivation |
| asset, plus | A useful or valuable quality |
| attraction, attractiveness | The quality of arousing interest |
| bad, badness | That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency |
| brachycephaly, brachycephalism | The quality of being brachycephalic |
| certainty, sure thing, foregone conclusion | Something that is certain |
| changeableness, changeability | The quality of being changeable |
| changelessness, unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness | The quality of being unchangeable |
| characteristic | A distinguishing quality |
| clearness, clarity, uncloudedness | The quality of clear water |
| combustibility, combustibleness, burnability | The quality of being capable of igniting and burning |
| complexity, complexness | The quality of being intricate and compounded |
| comprehensibility, understandability | The quality of comprehensible language or thought |
| constructiveness | The quality of serving to build or improve |
| correctness, rightness | conformity to fact or truth |
| counterfactuality | The quality of being contrary to fact |
| credibility, credibleness, believability | The quality of being believable or trustworthy |
| destructiveness | The quality of causing destruction |
| difference | The quality of being unlike or dissimilar |
| difficulty, difficultness | The quality of being difficult |
| directivity, directiveness | The quality of being directive |
| divinity | The quality of being divine |
| divisibility | The quality of being divisible |
| dolichocephaly, dolichocephalism | The quality of being dolichocephalic |
| domesticity | The quality of being domestic or domesticated |
| ease, easiness, simplicity, simpleness | freedom from difficulty / difficulty or hardship / hardship or effort |
| elegance | A refined quality of gracefulness and good taste |
| elegance | A quality of neatness and ingenious simplicity in the solution of a problem (especially in science or mathematics) |
| ethnicity | An ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural / cultural ties |
| excellence | The quality of excelling |
| expressiveness | The quality of being expressive |
| extraordinariness | The quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered |
| extremeness | The quality of being extreme |
| factuality, factualness | The quality of being actual or based on fact |
| fibrosity, fibrousness | The quality of being fibrous |
| fidelity, faithfulness | The quality of being faithful |
| finiteness, finitude, boundedness | The quality of being finite |
| foreignness, strangeness, curiousness | The quality of being alien or not native |
| fruitfulness, fecundity | The quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth |
| fruitlessness, aridity, barrenness | The quality of yielding nothing of value |
| generality | The quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability |
| good, goodness | That which is pleasing or valuable or useful / useful |
| hardness | A quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering |
| holiness, sanctity, sanctitude | The quality of being holy |
| hot stuff, voluptuousness | The quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting) |
| humaneness | The quality of compassion or consideration for others (people or animals) |
| humanness, humanity, manhood | The quality of being human |
| humor, humour | The quality of being funny |
| ideality | The quality of being ideal |
| illogicality, illogicalness, illogic, inconsequence | invalid or incorrect reasoning |
| immateriality, incorporeality | The quality of not being physical |
| immobility | The quality of not moving |
| immorality | The quality of not being in accord / accord with standards of right or good conduct |
| impenetrability, imperviousness | The quality of being impenetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.) |
| impressiveness | The quality of making a strong or vivid impression on the mind |
| inability, unfitness | lacking the power to perform |
| inaccuracy | The quality of being inaccurate and having errors |
| incomprehensibility | The quality of being incomprehensible |
| incorrectness, wrongness | The quality of not conforming to fact or truth |
| incredibility, incredibleness | The quality of being incredible |
| inelegance | The quality of lacking refinement and good taste |
| infidelity, unfaithfulness | The quality of being unfaithful |
| infiniteness, infinitude, unboundedness, boundlessness, limitlessness | The quality of being infinite |
| inhumaneness, inhumanity | The quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others |
| insolubility | The quality of being insoluble and difficult to dissolve in liquid / liquid |
| inutility, uselessness, unusefulness | The quality of having no practical use |
| irregularity, unregularity | not characterized by a fixed principle or rate |
| lawfulness | The quality of conforming to law |
| logicality, logicalness | correct and valid reasoning |
| materiality, physicalness, corporeality, corporality | The quality of being physical |
| memorability | The quality of being worth remembering |
| mobility | The quality of moving freely |
| morality | concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong |
| naivete, naivety, naiveness | lack of sophistication or worldliness |
| nativeness | The quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin |
| naturalness | The quality of being natural or based on natural principles |
| nature | The essential qualities or characteristics / characteristics by which something is recognized |
| navigability | The quality of being suitable for the passage of a ship or aircraft |
| neediness | The quality of needing attention and affection and reassurance to a marked degree |
| negativity, negativeness, negativism | Characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands |
| occidentalism | The quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Western civilizations |
| opacity, opaqueness | The quality of being opaque to a degree |
| ordinariness, mundaneness, mundanity | The quality of being commonplace and ordinary |
| orientalism | The quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Asian civilizations |
| originality | The quality of being new and original (not derived from something else) |
| painfulness, distressingness | The quality of being painful |
| parental quality | A quality appropriate to a parent |
| particularity, specialness | The quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance |
| pathos, poignancy | A quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) |
| penetrability, perviousness | The quality of being penetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.) |
| piquancy, piquance, piquantness | The quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting |
| pleasantness, sweetness | The quality of giving pleasure |
| popularity | The quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after |
| positivity, positiveness, positivism | A quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness |
| power, powerfulness | possession of controlling influence |
| powerlessness, impotence, impotency | The quality of lacking strength or power |
| probability | The quality of being probable |
| protectiveness | The quality of providing protection |
| publicity | The quality of being open to public view |
| quantifiability, measurability | The quality of being measurable |
| regularity | The quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate |
| relativity | The quality of being relative / relative and having significance only in relation to something else |
| responsiveness | The quality of being responsive |
| romanticism, romance | An exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) |
| salability, salableness | The quality of being salable or marketable |
| sameness | The quality of being alike |
| satisfactoriness | The quality of giving satisfaction sufficient to meet a demand or requirement |
| simplicity, simpleness | The quality of being simple or uncompounded |
| snootiness | The quality of being snooty |
| soapiness | The quality of being soap or being covered with soap |
| solubility | The quality of being soluble and easily dissolved in liquid / liquid |
| sophistication, worldliness, mundaneness, mundanity | The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment |
| spinnability | The quality of being suitable for spinning or the capability of being spun (used of textile fibers) |
| stuff | unspecified qualities required to do or be something |
| stuffiness, closeness | The quality of being close and poorly ventilated |
| subjectivism | The quality of being subjective |
| sufficiency, adequacy | The quality of being sufficient for the end in view |
| suitability, suitableness | The quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose |
| tone | The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author |
| ulteriority | The quality of being ulterior |
| ultimate | The finest or most superior quality of its kind |
| uncertainty, uncertainness, precariousness | unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance |
| unholiness | The quality of being unholy |
| unlawfulness | The quality of failing to conform to law |
| unnaturalness | The quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles |
| unoriginality | The quality of being unoriginal |
| unpleasantness | The quality of giving displeasure |
| unpopularity | The quality of lacking general approval or acceptance |
| unresponsiveness, deadness | The quality of being unresponsive |
| unsatisfactoriness | The quality of being inadequate / inadequate or unsuitable |
| unsuitability, unsuitableness, ineptness | The quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose |
| unwholesomeness, morbidness, morbidity | The quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you |
| urbanity | The quality or character of life in a city or town |
| utility, usefulness | The quality of being of practical use |
| virtu, vertu | artistic / artistic quality |
| waxiness | The quality of being made of wax or covered with wax |
| wholesomeness | The quality of being beneficial and generally good for you |
| woodiness, woodsiness | The quality of abounding in trees |
| worth | The quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful |
| worthlessness, ineptitude | Having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful |
| Broader | attribute | An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity |
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| Spanish | calidad, cualidad |
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| Catalan | qualitat |
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| Verbs | qualify | describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of |
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