an essential or distinctive characteristic, property, or attribute: the chemical qualities of alcohol.
character or nature, as belonging to or distinguishing a thing: the quality of a sound.
character with respect to fineness, or grade of excellence: food of poor quality; silks of fine quality.
high grade; superiority; excellence: wood grain of quality.
a personality or character trait: kindness is one of her many good qualities.
native excellence or superiority.
an accomplishment or attainment.
good or high social position: a man of quality.
the superiority or distinction associated with high social position.
Acoustics. the texture of a tone, dependent on its overtone content, that distinguishes it from others of the same pitch and loudness.
Phonetics. the tonal color, or timbre, that characterizes a particular vowel sound.
Logic. the character of a proposition as affirmative or negative.
Thermodynamics. the proportion or percentage of vapor in a mixture of liquid and vapor, as wet steam.
social status or position.
a person of high social position: He's quality, that one is.
adjective
of or having superior quality: quality paper.
producing or providing products or services of high quality or merit: a quality publisher.
of or occupying high social status: a quality family.
marked by a concentrated expenditure of involvement, concern, or commitment: Counselors are urging that working parents try to spend more quality time with their children.
Origin of quality
1250–1300; Middle English qualite<Old French <Latin quālitās, equivalent to quāl(is) of what sort + -itās-ity
SYNONYMS FOR quality
1 trait, character, feature.
3 nature, kind, grade, sort, condition.
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synonym study for quality
1. Quality,attribute,property agree in meaning a particular characteristic (of a person or thing). A quality is a characteristic, innate or acquired, that, in some particular, determines the nature and behavior of a person or thing: naturalness as a quality; the quality of meat. An attribute was originally a quality attributed, usually to a person or something personified; more recently it has meant a fundamental or innate characteristic: an attribute of God; attributes of a logical mind.Property applies only to things; it means a characteristic belonging specifically in the constitution of, or found (invariably) in, the behavior of a thing: physical properties of uranium or of limestone.
Like the California fires, which cast an orange hue over the San Francisco Bay Area, the Arctic fires have had a sci-fi quality.
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Receiving follow-up questions, Google’s John Mueller then reiterated that point, and Ben Gomes, Google’s VP of search engineering confirmed that quality raters don’t influence any page’s rankings directly.
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Ideally, your website looks good and loads quickly, but those qualities alone don’t make a website great.
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Jackson said he still gets quarterly reports on the aquifer’s water quality.
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CTV retargeting allows you to leverage your first-party data and target site visitors with high-quality ads streamed across television.
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The economy has begun to add jobs, but the quality of those jobs is an increasing concern.
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The quality of the music is a major factor in this recent surge.
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In the midst of the clubbiness, there is a heimishe (Yiddish for familiar, old school) quality.
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First, we need to change the debate—to focus at least as much on the quality of resources as the quantity.
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Cuban cigars are world-renowned for their quality and craftsmanship, and Americans have loved this major Cuban export for decades.
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The climate of Cumberland does not overpower one—the air is of a quality that urges you on to think and do.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14)|Elbert Hubbard
If you had said or implied she was a lady, she would have shrunk as from a covert reflection on the quality of her work.
The Flight of the Shadow|George MacDonald
They estimate the efficacy of prayer by its quantity and not by its quality.
Wit and Humor of the Bible|Marion D. Shutter
I see the answer in your face: it is the quality of being Sure-Footed.
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices|Charles Dickens
It constitutes neither the being nor the quality of the (being) in which it exists.
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British Dictionary definitions for quality
quality
/ (ˈkwɒlɪtɪ) /
nounplural-ties
a distinguishing characteristic, property, or attribute
the basic character or nature of something
a trait or feature of personality
degree or standard of excellence, esp a high standard
(formerly) high social status or the distinction associated with it
musical tone colour; timbre
logicthe characteristic of a proposition that is dependent on whether it is affirmative or negative
phoneticsthe distinctive character of a vowel, determined by the configuration of the mouth, tongue, etc, when it is articulated and distinguished from the pitch and stress with which it is uttered
(modifier)having or showing excellence or superioritya quality product
Word Origin for quality
C13: from Old French qualité, from Latin quālitās state, nature, from quālis of what sort