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sex characteristic vs characteristic

characteristic vs sex characteristic

sex characteristic and characteristic both are nouns.

sex characteristic is not an adjective while characteristic is an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
sex characteristic Yes No No No
characteristic Yes Yes No No
As nouns, characteristic is a hypernym of sex characteristic; that is, characteristic is a word with a broader meaning than sex characteristic:
  • sex characteristic: those characteristics (both anatomical and psychological) that are strongly associated with one sex relative to the other
  • characteristic: a prominent attribute or aspect of something
Other hypernyms of sex characteristic include feature.
sex characteristic (noun) characteristic (noun)
those characteristics (both anatomical and psychological) that are strongly associated with one sex relative to the other 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
sex characteristic (adjective) characteristic (adjective)
typical or distinctive
Difference between sex characteristic and characteristic

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