| quality | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. quality | an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone.; "the quality of mercy is not strained" |
| ~ attribute | an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity. |
| ~ appearance, visual aspect | outward or visible aspect of a person or thing. |
| ~ attractiveness, attraction | the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts.; "her personality held a strange attraction for him" |
| ~ uncloudedness, clarity, clearness | the quality of clear water.; "when she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes" |
| ~ opaqueness, opacity | the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light. |
| ~ divisibility | the quality of being divisible; the capacity to be divided into parts or divided among a number of persons. |
| ~ ease, easiness, simpleness, simplicity | freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.; "he rose through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into containers for ease of transportation"; "the very easiness of the deed held her back" |
| ~ difficultness, difficulty | the quality of being difficult.; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb" |
| ~ burnability, combustibility, combustibleness | the quality of being capable of igniting and burning. |
| ~ suitability, suitableness | the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose.; "an important requirement is suitability for long trips" |
| ~ arability | the quality of land that is appropriate for cultivation. |
| ~ impressiveness | the quality of making a strong or vivid impression on the mind. |
| ~ navigability | the quality of being suitable for the passage of a ship or aircraft. |
| ~ neediness | the quality of needing attention and affection and reassurance to a marked degree.; "he recognized her neediness but had no time to respond to it" |
| ~ distressingness, painfulness | the quality of being painful.; "she feared the painfulness of childbirth" |
| ~ piquance, piquancy, piquantness | the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting. |
| ~ publicity | the quality of being open to public view.; "the publicity of the court room" |
| ~ spinnability | the quality of being suitable for spinning or the capability of being spun (used of textile fibers). |
| ~ unsuitability, unsuitableness, ineptness | the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose. |
| ~ protectiveness | the quality of providing protection.; "statistical evidence for the protectiveness of vaccination" |
| ~ nature | the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized.; "it is the nature of fire to burn"; "the true nature of jealousy" |
| ~ humanness, humanity, manhood | the quality of being human.; "he feared the speedy decline of all manhood" |
| ~ air, aura, atmosphere | a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing.; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate's headquarters"; "the place had an aura of romance" |
| ~ excellence | the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree. |
| ~ ultimate | the finest or most superior quality of its kind.; "the ultimate in luxury" |
| ~ characteristic | a distinguishing quality. |
| ~ salability, salableness | the quality of being salable or marketable. |
| ~ changeability, changeableness | the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change.; "the changeableness of the weather" |
| ~ unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness, changelessness | the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged. |
| ~ sameness | the quality of being alike.; "sameness of purpose kept them together" |
| ~ difference | the quality of being unlike or dissimilar.; "there are many differences between jazz and rock" |
| ~ sure thing, certainty, foregone conclusion | something that is certain.; "his victory is a certainty" |
| ~ probability | the quality of being probable; a probable event or the most probable event.; "for a while mutiny seemed a probability"; "going by past experience there was a high probability that the visitors were lost" |
| ~ uncertainness, uncertainty, precariousness | being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance.; "the uncertainty of the outcome"; "the precariousness of his income" |
| ~ factuality, factualness | the quality of being actual or based on fact.; "the realm of factuality must be distinguished from the realm of imagination" |
| ~ counterfactuality | the quality of being contrary to fact. |
| ~ corporality, corporeality, physicalness, materiality | the quality of being physical; consisting of matter. |
| ~ incorporeality, immateriality | the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter. |
| ~ particularity, specialness | the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance.; "the particularity of human situations" |
| ~ generality | the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability. |
| ~ simplicity, simpleness | the quality of being simple or uncompounded.; "the simplicity of a crystal" |
| ~ complexity, complexness | the quality of being intricate and compounded.; "he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers" |
| ~ regularity | the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate.; "he was famous for the regularity of his habits" |
| ~ unregularity, irregularity | not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals. |
| ~ mobility | the quality of moving freely. |
| ~ immobility | the quality of not moving. |
| ~ pleasantness, sweetness | the quality of giving pleasure.; "he was charmed by the sweetness of her manner"; "the pleasantness of a cool breeze on a hot summer day" |
| ~ unpleasantness | the quality of giving displeasure.; "the recent unpleasantness of the weather" |
| ~ believability, credibility, credibleness | the quality of being believable or trustworthy. |
| ~ incredibility, incredibleness | the quality of being incredible. |
| ~ logicality, logicalness | correct and valid reasoning. |
| ~ illogic, illogicality, illogicalness, inconsequence | invalid or incorrect reasoning. |
| ~ naturalness | the quality of being natural or based on natural principles.; "he accepted the naturalness of death"; "the spontaneous naturalness of his manner" |
| ~ unnaturalness | the quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles. |
| ~ vertu, virtu | artistic quality. |
| ~ wholesomeness | the quality of being beneficial and generally good for you. |
| ~ unwholesomeness, morbidness, morbidity | the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you. |
| ~ satisfactoriness | the quality of giving satisfaction sufficient to meet a demand or requirement. |
| ~ unsatisfactoriness | the quality of being inadequate or unsuitable. |
| ~ ordinariness, mundaneness, mundanity | the quality of being commonplace and ordinary. |
| ~ extraordinariness | the quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered. |
| ~ ethnicity | an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties.; "ethnicity has a strong influence on community status relations" |
| ~ foreignness, curiousness, strangeness | the quality of being alien or not native.; "the strangeness of a foreigner" |
| ~ nativeness | the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin. |
| ~ originality | the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else). |
| ~ unoriginality | the quality of being unoriginal. |
| ~ correctness, rightness | conformity to fact or truth. |
| ~ incorrectness, wrongness | the quality of not conforming to fact or truth. |
| ~ accuracy, truth | the quality of being near to the true value.; "he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass"; "the lawyer questioned the truth of my account" |
| ~ accuracy | (mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number.; "the atomic clock enabled scientists to measure time with much greater accuracy" |
| ~ inaccuracy | the quality of being inaccurate and having errors. |
| ~ distinction | a distinguishing quality.; "it has the distinction of being the cheapest restaurant in town" |
| ~ popularity | the quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after.; "his charm soon won him affection and popularity"; "the universal popularity of American movies" |
| ~ unpopularity | the quality of lacking general approval or acceptance. |
| ~ lawfulness | the quality of conforming to law. |
| ~ unlawfulness | the quality of failing to conform to law. |
| ~ elegance | a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste.; "she conveys an aura of elegance and gentility" |
| ~ elegance | a quality of neatness and ingenious simplicity in the solution of a problem (especially in science or mathematics).; "the simplicity and elegance of his invention" |
| ~ inelegance | the quality of lacking refinement and good taste. |
| ~ urbanity | the quality or character of life in a city or town.; "there is an important difference between rusticity and urbanity" |
| ~ comprehensibility, understandability | the quality of comprehensible language or thought. |
| ~ expressiveness | the quality of being expressive. |
| ~ incomprehensibility | the quality of being incomprehensible. |
| ~ humaneness | the quality of compassion or consideration for others (people or animals). |
| ~ inhumaneness, inhumanity | the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others. |
| ~ morality | concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct. |
| ~ immorality | the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct.; "the immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction" |
| ~ amorality | the quality of being amoral. |
| ~ divinity | the quality of being divine.; "ancient Egyptians believed in the divinity of the Pharaohs" |
| ~ holiness, sanctitude, sanctity | the quality of being holy. |
| ~ ideality | the quality of being ideal. |
| ~ unholiness | the quality of being unholy. |
| ~ parental quality | a quality appropriate to a parent. |
| ~ faithfulness, fidelity | the quality of being faithful. |
| ~ infidelity, unfaithfulness | the quality of being unfaithful. |
| ~ mundaneness, mundanity, worldliness, sophistication | the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment. |
| ~ naiveness, naivete, naivety | lack of sophistication or worldliness. |
| ~ hardness | a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering.; "the costs of reducing hardness depend on the relative amounts of calcium and magnesium compounds that are present" |
| ~ penetrability, perviousness | the quality of being penetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.). |
| ~ impenetrability, imperviousness | the quality of being impenetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.). |
| ~ soapiness | the quality of being soap or being covered with soap.; "she could smell the soapiness of the doctor's hands" |
| ~ fibrosity, fibrousness | the quality of being fibrous. |
| ~ directiveness, directivity | the quality of being directive. |
| ~ extremeness | the quality of being extreme. |
| ~ closeness, stuffiness | the quality of being close and poorly ventilated. |
| ~ adequacy, sufficiency | the quality of being sufficient for the end in view.; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence" |
| ~ worth | the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful. |
| ~ worthlessness, ineptitude | having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful.; "the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness" |
| ~ goodness, good | that which is pleasing or valuable or useful.; "weigh the good against the bad"; "among the highest goods of all are happiness and self-realization" |
| ~ bad, badness | that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency.; "take the bad with the good" |
| ~ fruitfulness, fecundity | the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth. |
| ~ aridity, barrenness, fruitlessness | the quality of yielding nothing of value. |
| ~ usefulness, utility | the quality of being of practical use. |
| ~ inutility, unusefulness, uselessness | the quality of having no practical use. |
| ~ asset, plus | a useful or valuable quality. |
| ~ constructiveness | the quality of serving to build or improve. |
| ~ destructiveness | the quality of causing destruction. |
| ~ positiveness, positivism, positivity | a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness. |
| ~ negativism, negativeness, negativity | characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands. |
| ~ occidentalism | the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Western civilizations. |
| ~ orientalism | the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Asian civilizations.; "orientalisms can be found in Mozart's operas" |
| ~ power, powerfulness | possession of controlling influence.; "the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"; "the power of his love saved her"; "his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade" |
| ~ ability | the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment. |
| ~ impotence, impotency, powerlessness | the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble. |
| ~ inability, unfitness | lacking the power to perform. |
| ~ romance, romanticism | an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure). |
| ~ domesticity | the quality of being domestic or domesticated.; "a royal family living in unpretentious domesticity" |
| ~ boundlessness, infiniteness, limitlessness, unboundedness, infinitude | the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit. |
| ~ boundedness, finiteness, finitude | the quality of being finite. |
| ~ measurability, quantifiability | the quality of being measurable. |
| ~ solubility | the quality of being soluble and easily dissolved in liquid. |
| ~ insolubility | the quality of being insoluble and difficult to dissolve in liquid. |
| ~ stuff | unspecified qualities required to do or be something.; "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine" |
| ~ hot stuff, voluptuousness | the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting).; "he thought she was really hot stuff" |
| ~ humor, humour | the quality of being funny.; "I fail to see the humor in it" |
| ~ pathos, poignancy | a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow).; "the film captured all the pathos of their situation" |
| ~ tone | the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author.; "the general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is that the government should withdraw"; "from the tone of her behavior I gathered that I had outstayed my welcome" |
| ~ brachycephalism, brachycephaly | the quality of being brachycephalic. |
| ~ dolichocephalism, dolichocephaly | the quality of being dolichocephalic. |
| ~ relativity | the quality of being relative and having significance only in relation to something else. |
| ~ responsiveness | the quality of being responsive; reacting quickly; as a quality of people, it involves responding with emotion to people and events. |
| ~ deadness, unresponsiveness | the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events.; "she began to recover from her numb unresponsiveness after the accident"; "in an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped away" |
| ~ subjectivism | the quality of being subjective. |
| ~ snootiness | the quality of being snooty.; "he disliked his neighbors' snootiness" |
| ~ ulteriority | the quality of being ulterior.; "their conversation was limited to ulteriorities"; "a terrible feeling of ulteriority"; "his stories were too susceptible to ulteriority" |
| ~ memorability | the quality of being worth remembering.; "continuous change results in lack of memorability"; "true memorability of phrase" |
| ~ woodiness, woodsiness | the quality of abounding in trees. |
| ~ waxiness | the quality of being made of wax or covered with wax. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. caliber, calibre, quality | a degree or grade of excellence or worth.; "the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber" |
| ~ high quality, superiority | the quality of being superior. |
| ~ low quality, inferiority | an inferior quality. |
| ~ degree, level, grade | a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality.; "a moderate grade of intelligence"; "a high level of care is required"; "it is all a matter of degree" |
| n. (cognition) | 3. character, lineament, quality | a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something.; "each town has a quality all its own"; "the radical character of our demands" |
| ~ attribute, dimension, property | a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.; "self-confidence is not an endearing property" |
| ~ texture | the essential quality of something.; "the texture of Neapolitan life" |
| n. (attribute) | 4. quality, timber, timbre, tone | (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound).; "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet" |
| ~ sound property | an attribute of sound. |
| ~ harmonic | any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental. |
| ~ resonance | the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities. |
| ~ coloration, colouration, color, colour | the timbre of a musical sound.; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music" |
| ~ nasality | a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators. |
| ~ plangency, reverberance, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy, resonance, ringing | having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant. |
| ~ stridence, stridency, shrillness | having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound. |
| ~ register | (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments. |
| ~ music | an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner. |
| n. (state) | 5. quality | high social status.; "a man of quality" |
| ~ social rank, social station, social status, rank | position in a social hierarchy.; "the British are more aware of social status than Americans are" |
| adj. | 6. choice, prime, prize, quality, select | of superior grade.; "choice wines"; "prime beef"; "prize carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches" |
| ~ superior | of high or superior quality or performance.; "superior wisdom derived from experience"; "superior math students" |
| adj. | 7. quality | of high social status.; "people of quality"; "a quality family" |
| ~ upper-class | occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society. |
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