quality




an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone

"the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare

Type of:
  • attribute

Types:
  • appearance; visual aspect
  • attraction; attractiveness
  • clearness; clarity; uncloudedness
  • opacity; opaqueness
  • divisibility
  • ease; easiness; simplicity; simpleness
  • difficulty; difficultness
  • combustibility; combustibleness; burnability
  • suitability; suitableness
  • arability
  • impressiveness
  • navigability
  • neediness
  • painfulness; distressingness
  • piquancy; piquance; piquantness
  • publicity
  • spinnability
  • unsuitability; unsuitableness; ineptness
  • protectiveness
  • nature
  • humanness; humanity; manhood
  • air; aura; atmosphere
  • excellence
  • ultimate
  • characteristic
  • salability; salableness
  • changeableness; changeability
  • changelessness; unchangeability; unchangeableness; unchangingness
  • sameness
  • difference
  • certainty; sure thing; foregone conclusion
  • probability
  • uncertainty; uncertainness; precariousness
  • factuality; factualness
  • counterfactuality
  • materiality; physicalness; corporeality; corporality
  • immateriality; incorporeality
  • particularity; specialness
  • generality
  • simplicity; simpleness
  • complexity; complexness
  • regularity
  • irregularity; unregularity
  • mobility
  • immobility
  • pleasantness; sweetness
  • unpleasantness
  • credibility; credibleness; believability
  • incredibility; incredibleness
  • logicality; logicalness
  • illogicality; illogicalness; illogic; inconsequence
  • naturalness
  • unnaturalness
  • virtu; vertu
  • wholesomeness
  • unwholesomeness; morbidness; morbidity
  • satisfactoriness
  • unsatisfactoriness
  • ordinariness; mundaneness; mundanity
  • extraordinariness
  • ethnicity
  • foreignness; strangeness; curiousness
  • nativeness
  • originality
  • unoriginality
  • correctness; rightness
  • incorrectness; wrongness
  • accuracy; truth
  • accuracy
  • inaccuracy
  • distinction
  • popularity
  • unpopularity
  • lawfulness
  • unlawfulness
  • elegance
  • elegance
  • inelegance
  • urbanity
  • comprehensibility; understandability
  • expressiveness
  • incomprehensibility
  • humaneness
  • inhumaneness; inhumanity
  • morality
  • immorality
  • amorality
  • divinity
  • holiness; sanctity; sanctitude
  • ideality
  • unholiness
  • parental quality
  • fidelity; faithfulness
  • infidelity; unfaithfulness
  • sophistication; worldliness; mundaneness; mundanity
  • naivete; naivety; naiveness
  • hardness
  • penetrability; perviousness
  • impenetrability; imperviousness
  • soapiness
  • fibrosity; fibrousness
  • directivity; directiveness
  • extremeness
  • stuffiness; closeness
  • sufficiency; adequacy
  • worth
  • worthlessness; ineptitude
  • good; goodness
  • bad; badness
  • fruitfulness; fecundity
  • fruitlessness; aridity; barrenness
  • utility; usefulness
  • inutility; uselessness; unusefulness
  • asset; plus
  • constructiveness
  • destructiveness
  • positivity; positiveness; positivism
  • negativity; negativeness; negativism
  • occidentalism
  • orientalism
  • power; powerfulness
  • ability
  • powerlessness; impotence; impotency
  • inability; unfitness
  • romanticism; romance
  • domesticity
  • infiniteness; infinitude; unboundedness; boundlessness; limitlessness
  • finiteness; finitude; boundedness
  • quantifiability; measurability
  • solubility
  • insolubility
  • stuff
  • hot stuff; voluptuousness
  • humor; humour
  • pathos; poignancy
  • tone
  • brachycephaly; brachycephalism
  • dolichocephaly; dolichocephalism
  • relativity
  • responsiveness
  • unresponsiveness; deadness
  • subjectivism
  • snootiness
  • ulteriority
  • memorability
  • woodiness; woodsiness
  • waxiness


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