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Noun (5 meanings)
1. an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare.
quality is a type of:
- attribute (noun) - an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity
types of quality:
- ability (noun) - the quality of being able to perform
- accuracy, truth (noun) - the quality of being near to the true value
- accuracy (noun) - (mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number
- air, aura, atmosphere (noun) - a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
- amorality (noun) - the quality of being amoral
- appearance, visual aspect (noun) - outward or visible aspect of a person or thing
- arability (noun) - the quality of land that is appropriate for cultivation
- asset, plus (noun) - a useful or valuable quality
- attraction, attractiveness (noun) - the quality of arousing interest
- bad, badness (noun) - that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
- brachycephaly, brachycephalism (noun) - the quality of being brachycephalic
- certainty, sure thing, foregone conclusion (noun) - something that is certain
- changeableness, changeability (noun) - the quality of being changeable
- changelessness, unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness (noun) - the quality of being unchangeable
- characteristic (noun) - a distinguishing quality
- clearness, clarity, uncloudedness (noun) - the quality of clear water
- combustibility, combustibleness, burnability (noun) - the quality of being capable of igniting and burning
- complexity, complexness (noun) - the quality of being intricate and compounded
- comprehensibility, understandability (noun) - the quality of comprehensible language or thought
- constructiveness (noun) - the quality of serving to build or improve
- correctness, rightness (noun) - conformity to fact or truth
- counterfactuality (noun) - the quality of being contrary to fact
- credibility, credibleness, believability (noun) - the quality of being believable or trustworthy
- destructiveness (noun) - the quality of causing destruction
- difference (noun) - the quality of being unlike or dissimilar
- difficulty, difficultness (noun) - the quality of being difficult
- directivity, directiveness (noun) - the quality of being directive
- distinction (noun) - a distinguishing quality
- divinity (noun) - the quality of being divine
- divisibility (noun) - the quality of being divisible
- dolichocephaly, dolichocephalism (noun) - the quality of being dolichocephalic
- domesticity (noun) - the quality of being domestic or domesticated
- ease, easiness, simplicity, simpleness (noun) - freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- elegance (noun) - a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste
- elegance (noun) - a quality of neatness and ingenious simplicity in the solution of a problem (especially in science or mathematics)
- ethnicity (noun) - an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties
- excellence (noun) - the quality of excelling
- expressiveness (noun) - the quality of being expressive
- extraordinariness (noun) - the quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered
- extremeness (noun) - the quality of being extreme
- factuality, factualness (noun) - the quality of being actual or based on fact
- fibrosity, fibrousness (noun) - the quality of being fibrous
- fidelity, faithfulness (noun) - the quality of being faithful
- finiteness, finitude, boundedness (noun) - the quality of being finite
- foreignness, strangeness, curiousness (noun) - the quality of being alien or not native
- fruitfulness, fecundity (noun) - the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
- fruitlessness, aridity, barrenness (noun) - the quality of yielding nothing of value
- generality (noun) - the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability
- good, goodness (noun) - that which is pleasing or valuable or useful
- hardness (noun) - a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering
- holiness, sanctity, sanctitude (noun) - the quality of being holy
- hot stuff, voluptuousness (noun) - the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting)
- humaneness (noun) - the quality of compassion or consideration for others (people or animals)
- humanness, humanity, manhood (noun) - the quality of being human
- humor, humour (noun) - the quality of being funny
- ideality (noun) - the quality of being ideal
- illogicality, illogicalness, illogic, inconsequence (noun) - invalid or incorrect reasoning
- immateriality, incorporeality (noun) - the quality of not being physical
- immobility (noun) - the quality of not moving
- immorality (noun) - the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct
- impenetrability, imperviousness (noun) - the quality of being impenetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.)
- impressiveness (noun) - the quality of making a strong or vivid impression on the mind
- inability, unfitness (noun) - lacking the power to perform
- inaccuracy (noun) - the quality of being inaccurate and having errors
- incomprehensibility (noun) - the quality of being incomprehensible
- incorrectness, wrongness (noun) - the quality of not conforming to fact or truth
- incredibility, incredibleness (noun) - the quality of being incredible
- inelegance (noun) - the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
- infidelity, unfaithfulness (noun) - the quality of being unfaithful
- infiniteness, infinitude, unboundedness, boundlessness, limitlessness (noun) - the quality of being infinite
- inhumaneness, inhumanity (noun) - the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others
- insolubility (noun) - the quality of being insoluble and difficult to dissolve in liquid
- inutility, uselessness, unusefulness (noun) - the quality of having no practical use
- irregularity, unregularity (noun) - not characterized by a fixed principle or rate
- lawfulness (noun) - the quality of conforming to law
- logicality, logicalness (noun) - correct and valid reasoning
- materiality, physicalness, corporeality, corporality (noun) - the quality of being physical
- memorability (noun) - the quality of being worth remembering
- mobility (noun) - the quality of moving freely
- morality (noun) - concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong
- naivete, naivety, naiveness (noun) - lack of sophistication or worldliness
- nativeness (noun) - the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin
- naturalness (noun) - the quality of being natural or based on natural principles
- nature (noun) - the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized
- navigability (noun) - the quality of being suitable for the passage of a ship or aircraft
- neediness (noun) - the quality of needing attention and affection and reassurance to a marked degree
- negativity, negativeness, negativism (noun) - characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands
- occidentalism (noun) - the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Western civilizations
- opacity, opaqueness (noun) - the quality of being opaque to a degree
- ordinariness, mundaneness, mundanity (noun) - the quality of being commonplace and ordinary
- orientalism (noun) - the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Asian civilizations
- originality (noun) - the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else)
- painfulness, distressingness (noun) - the quality of being painful
- parental quality (noun) - a quality appropriate to a parent
- particularity, specialness (noun) - the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance
- pathos, poignancy (noun) - a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)
- penetrability, perviousness (noun) - the quality of being penetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.)
- piquancy, piquance, piquantness (noun) - the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting
- pleasantness, sweetness (noun) - the quality of giving pleasure
- popularity (noun) - the quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after
- positivity, positiveness, positivism (noun) - a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness
- power, powerfulness (noun) - possession of controlling influence
- powerlessness, impotence, impotency (noun) - the quality of lacking strength or power
- probability (noun) - the quality of being probable
- protectiveness (noun) - the quality of providing protection
- publicity (noun) - the quality of being open to public view
- quantifiability, measurability (noun) - the quality of being measurable
- regularity (noun) - the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate
- relativity (noun) - the quality of being relative and having significance only in relation to something else
- responsiveness (noun) - the quality of being responsive
- romanticism, romance (noun) - an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
- salability, salableness (noun) - the quality of being salable or marketable
- sameness (noun) - the quality of being alike
- satisfactoriness (noun) - the quality of giving satisfaction sufficient to meet a demand or requirement
- simplicity, simpleness (noun) - the quality of being simple or uncompounded
- snootiness (noun) - the quality of being snooty
- soapiness (noun) - the quality of being soap or being covered with soap
- solubility (noun) - the quality of being soluble and easily dissolved in liquid
- sophistication, worldliness, mundaneness, mundanity (noun) - the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
- spinnability (noun) - the quality of being suitable for spinning or the capability of being spun (used of textile fibers)
- stuff (noun) - unspecified qualities required to do or be something
- stuffiness, closeness (noun) - the quality of being close and poorly ventilated
- subjectivism (noun) - the quality of being subjective
- sufficiency, adequacy (noun) - the quality of being sufficient for the end in view
- suitability, suitableness (noun) - the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose
- tone (noun) - the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
- ulteriority (noun) - the quality of being ulterior
- ultimate (noun) - the finest or most superior quality of its kind
- uncertainty, uncertainness, precariousness (noun) - being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance
- unholiness (noun) - the quality of being unholy
- unlawfulness (noun) - the quality of failing to conform to law
- unnaturalness (noun) - the quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles
- unoriginality (noun) - the quality of being unoriginal
- unpleasantness (noun) - the quality of giving displeasure
- unpopularity (noun) - the quality of lacking general approval or acceptance
- unresponsiveness, deadness (noun) - the quality of being unresponsive
- unsatisfactoriness (noun) - the quality of being inadequate or unsuitable
- unsuitability, unsuitableness, ineptness (noun) - the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose
- unwholesomeness, morbidness, morbidity (noun) - the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you
- urbanity (noun) - the quality or character of life in a city or town
- utility, usefulness (noun) - the quality of being of practical use
- virtu, vertu (noun) - artistic quality
- waxiness (noun) - the quality of being made of wax or covered with wax
- wholesomeness (noun) - the quality of being beneficial and generally good for you
- woodiness, woodsiness (noun) - the quality of abounding in trees
- worth (noun) - the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful
- worthlessness, ineptitude (noun) - having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful
Attribute:
- bad (adjective) - having undesirable or negative qualities
- good (adjective) - having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
- negative (adjective) - characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance
- positive (adjective) - characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
quality is derivationally related to:
- to qualify, characterize, characterise (verb) - describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of
Examples:
- “the quality of students has risen”,
- “an executive of low caliber”
quality is a type of:
types of quality:
- inferiority, low quality (noun) - an inferior quality
- superiority, high quality (noun) - the quality of being superior
Attribute:
- inferior (adjective) - of low or inferior quality
- superior (adjective) - of high or superior quality or performance
quality is derivationally related to:
- to qualify, dispose (verb) - make fit or prepared
- to qualify (verb) - pronounce fit or able
- to qualify, measure up (verb) - prove capable or fit
3. a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something.
Examples:
- “each town has a quality all its own”,
- “the radical character of our demands”
quality is a type of:
- property, attribute, dimension (noun) - a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished
types of quality:
- texture (noun) - the essential quality of something
quality is derivationally related to:
- characteristic (adjective) - typical or distinctive
- to characterize, characterise (verb) - be characteristic of
- to qualify, restrict (verb) - make more specific
- to qualify, characterize, characterise (verb) - describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of
4. (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound).
Examples:
- “the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely”,
- “the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet”
quality is a type of:
- sound property (noun) - an attribute of sound
types of quality:
- color, colour, coloration, colouration (noun) - the timbre of a musical sound
- harmonic (noun) - any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental
- nasality (noun) - a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators
- plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy (noun) - having the character of a loud deep sound
- register (noun) - (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
- resonance (noun) - the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities
- shrillness, stridence, stridency (noun) - having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound
quality is derivationally related to:
- tonal (adjective) - having tonality
- to tone, inflect, modulate (verb) - vary the pitch of one's speech
Domain of synset - TOPIC:
- music (noun) - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
5. high social status.
Example:
- “a man of quality”
quality is a type of:
- social station, social status, social rank, rank (noun) - position in a social hierarchy
quality is derivationally related to:
- to qualify, measure up (verb) - prove capable or fit
Adjective (2 meanings)
Examples:
- “choice wines”,
- “prime beef”,
- “prize carnations”,
- “quality paper”,
- “select peaches”
Derivationally related form:
- fineness, choiceness (noun) - the quality of being very good indeed
quality is similar to:
- superior (adjective) - of high or superior quality or performance
2. of high social status.
Examples:
- “people of quality”,
- “a quality family”
quality is similar to:
- upper-class (adjective) - occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society