qualities

nouncharacteristic, feature

nounvalue, status

Word Origin & History

c.1300, "temperament, character, disposition," from Old French qualite "quality, nature, characteristic" (12c., Modern French qualité), from Latin qualitatem (nominative qualitas) "a quality, property; nature, state, condition" (said [Tucker, etc.] to have been coined by Cicero to translate Greek poiotes), from qualis "what kind of a," from PIE pronomial base *kwo- (see who).

Meaning "degree of goodness" is late 14c. Meaning "social rank, position" is c.1400. Noun phrase quality time first recorded 1977. Quality of life is from 1943. Quality control first attested 1935.

Example Sentences for qualities

Rarely has there been exhibited so complete a combination of qualities in statesmanship.

Gerald Raymount was a man of an unusual combination of qualities.

The passage was stormy--the Bay of Biscay, in particular, giving us a touch of its qualities.

We can never, therefore, have any reason to suppose the existence of these qualities.

He loved her dearly; but at that age her qualities were half developed.

Now, had his brother Frederick that peculiar union of qualities?

I am secure in one of the wench's qualities however—she is not to be corrupted.

What are the qualities by virtue of which this claim is made, and allowed by every competent judge?

I am the man who loves you because he has found in you qualities that are inestimable.

His face possesses the two qualities of calmness and elegance.

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Synonyms for qualities

noun characteristic, feature