characteristic vs indirectness

indirectness vs characteristic

characteristic and indirectness both are nouns.

characteristic is an adjective but indirectness is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
characteristic	Yes	Yes	No	No
indirectness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, indirectness is a hyponym of characteristic; that is, indirectness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than characteristic:

characteristic: a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something
indirectness: having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal

Other hyponyms of characteristic include passport, recommendation, compatibility, incompatibility, point, spot, point, earmark, hallmark, stylemark, trademark, saving grace, aspect, safeness, dangerousness, curability, curableness, incurability, incurableness, directness, straightness, robustness, ruralism, rurality, streak, invasiveness, noninvasiveness.

characteristic (noun)	indirectness (noun)
a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something	having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal
any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions
a prominent attribute or aspect of something
the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2

characteristic (adjective)	indirectness (adjective)
typical or distinctive

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