indirectness vs characteristic

characteristic vs indirectness

indirectness and characteristic both are nouns.

indirectness is not an adjective while characteristic is an adjective.

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

As nouns, characteristic is a hypernym of indirectness; that is, characteristic is a word with a broader meaning than indirectness:

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

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

indirectness (adjective)	characteristic (adjective)
	typical or distinctive

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