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
WordNet Lexical Database
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