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quality vs characteristic

characteristic vs quality

quality and characteristic both are nouns.

quality and characteristic both are adjectives.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
quality Yes Yes No No
characteristic Yes Yes No No
As nouns, characteristic is a hyponym of quality; that is, characteristic is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than quality:
  • quality: an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
  • characteristic: a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something
Other hyponyms of quality include appearance, visual aspect, attraction, attractiveness, clarity, clearness, uncloudedness, opacity, opaqueness, divisibility, ease, easiness, simpleness, simplicity, difficultness, difficulty, burnability, combustibility, combustibleness, suitability, suitableness, arability, impressiveness, navigability, neediness, distressingness, painfulness, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, publicity, spinnability, ineptness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, protectiveness, nature, humanity, humanness, manhood, air, atmosphere, aura, excellence, ultimate, salability, salableness, changeability, changeableness, changelessness, unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness, sameness, difference, certainty, foregone conclusion, sure thing, probability, precariousness, uncertainness, uncertainty, factuality, factualness, counterfactuality, corporality, corporeality, materiality, physicalness, immateriality, incorporeality, particularity, specialness, generality, simpleness, simplicity, complexity, complexness, regularity, irregularity, unregularity, mobility, immobility, pleasantness, sweetness, unpleasantness, believability, credibility, credibleness, incredibility, incredibleness, logicality, logicalness, illogic, illogicality, illogicalness, inconsequence, naturalness, unnaturalness, vertu, virtu, wholesomeness, morbidity, morbidness, unwholesomeness, satisfactoriness, unsatisfactoriness, mundaneness, mundanity, ordinariness, extraordinariness, ethnicity, curiousness, foreignness, strangeness, nativeness, originality, unoriginality, correctness, rightness, incorrectness, wrongness, accuracy, truth, accuracy, inaccuracy, popularity, unpopularity, lawfulness, unlawfulness, elegance, elegance, inelegance, urbanity, comprehensibility, understandability, expressiveness, incomprehensibility, humaneness, inhumaneness, inhumanity, morality, immorality, amorality, divinity, holiness, sanctitude, sanctity, ideality, unholiness, parental quality, faithfulness, fidelity, infidelity, unfaithfulness, mundaneness, mundanity, sophistication, worldliness, naiveness, naivete, naivety, hardness, penetrability, perviousness, impenetrability, imperviousness, soapiness, fibrosity, fibrousness, directiveness, directivity, extremeness, closeness, stuffiness, adequacy, sufficiency, worth, ineptitude, worthlessness, good, goodness, bad, badness, fecundity, fruitfulness, aridity, barrenness, fruitlessness, usefulness, utility, inutility, unusefulness, uselessness, asset, plus, constructiveness, destructiveness, positiveness, positivism, positivity, negativeness, negativism, negativity, occidentalism, orientalism, power, powerfulness, ability, impotence, impotency, powerlessness, inability, unfitness, romance, romanticism, domesticity, boundlessness, infiniteness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness, boundedness, finiteness, finitude, measurability, quantifiability, solubility, insolubility, stuff, hot stuff, voluptuousness, humor, humour, pathos, poignancy, tone, brachycephalism, brachycephaly, dolichocephalism, dolichocephaly, relativity, responsiveness, deadness, unresponsiveness, subjectivism, snootiness, ulteriority, memorability, woodiness, woodsiness, waxiness, indivisibility, immeasurability, minutia, injectiveness.
quality (noun) characteristic (noun)
an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something
(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions
a degree or grade of excellence or worth a prominent attribute or aspect of something
a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature 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
high social status
quality (adjective) characteristic (adjective)
of superior grade typical or distinctive
of high social status
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