characteristics

The run-up to the fight stressed the clashing characteristics of the fighters.

Leakey, Goodall made history in 1960 when she discovered that chimpanzees, humankind’s closest living ancestors, made and used tools, characteristics that scientists had long thought were exclusive to humans.

Then, obviously, the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look.

Ethnocentric, rude to others while traveling abroad in their own countries, ignorant of the world, self-absorbed, arrogant, rude — these are the very characteristics of America’s president.

It is a spectrum, meaning it includes a wide range of characteristics which vary from person to person.