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The qualities of something are its distinguishing features, and those can be good or bad. The qualities you look for when buying a tightrope might include strength and pliability, but you probably wouldn't want one with a slippery quality.

Quality can also be used as a purely positive term: "you're a person of quality," or "you've got a quality operation" are entirely complimentary, meaning you and your operation are superior. There's a joke about how "quality control" in fast food chains assures that whenever you order a burger in a restaurant in that chain — whether you’re in Dallas or Des Moines — the quality is always the same — bad!

DEFINITIONS OF: quality

n an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone

“"the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare”

Types:: show 539 types...; hide 539 types...; appearance, visual aspect
outward or visible aspect of a person or thing; attraction, attractiveness
the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts; clarity, clearness, uncloudedness
the quality of clear water; opacity, opaqueness
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; difficultness, difficulty
the quality of being difficult; 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; 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; distressingness, painfulness
the quality of being painful; piquance, piquancy, piquantness
the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting; publicity
the quality of being open to public view; spinnability
the quality of being suitable for spinning or the capability of being spun (used of textile fibers); ineptness, unsuitability, unsuitableness
the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose; protectiveness
the quality of providing protection; nature
the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized; humanity, humanness, manhood
the quality of being human; air, atmosphere, aura
a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; excellence
the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree; ultimate
the finest or most superior quality of its kind; 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; changelessness, unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness
the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged; sameness
the quality of being alike; difference
the quality of being unlike or dissimilar; certainty, foregone conclusion, sure thing
something that is certain; probability
the quality of being probable; a probable event or the most probable event; precariousness, uncertainness, uncertainty
being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance; factuality, factualness
the quality of being actual or based on fact; counterfactuality
the quality of being contrary to fact; corporality, corporeality, materiality, physicalness
the quality of being physical; consisting of matter; immateriality, incorporeality
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; generality
the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability; simpleness, simplicity
the quality of being simple or uncompounded; complexity, complexness
the quality of being intricate and compounded; regularity
the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate; irregularity, unregularity
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; unpleasantness
the quality of giving displeasure; 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; 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; morbidity, morbidness, unwholesomeness
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; mundaneness, mundanity, ordinariness
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; curiousness, foreignness, strangeness
the quality of being alien or not native; 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; accuracy
(mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number; inaccuracy
the quality of being inaccurate and having errors; distinction
a distinguishing quality; popularity
the quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after; 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; elegance
a quality of neatness and ingenious simplicity in the solution of a problem (especially in science or mathematics); inelegance
the quality of lacking refinement and good taste; urbanity
the quality or character of life in a city or town; 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; amorality
the quality of being amoral; divinity
the quality of being divine; 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, sophistication, worldliness
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; 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; 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; worth
the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful; ineptitude, worthlessness
having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful; good, goodness
that which is pleasing or valuable or useful; bad, badness
that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; fecundity, fruitfulness
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; negativeness, negativism, 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; power, powerfulness
possession of controlling influence; 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; boundlessness, infiniteness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness
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; hot stuff, voluptuousness
the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting); humor, humour
the quality of being funny; pathos, poignancy
a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow); tone
the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author; 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; subjectivism
the quality of being subjective; snootiness
the quality of being snooty; ulteriority
the quality of being ulterior; memorability
the quality of being worth remembering; woodiness, woodsiness
the quality of abounding in trees; waxiness
the quality of being made of wax or covered with wax; adaptability
the ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances; unadaptability
the inability to change or be changed to fit changed circumstances; passport, recommendation
any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission; agerasia
youthful appearance in an old person; look
physical appearance; view
outward appearance; color, colour
the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation; complexion
texture and appearance of the skin of the face; effect, impression
an outward appearance; linear perspective, perspective
the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer; phase
(astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun); vanishing point
the appearance of a point on the horizon at which parallel lines converge; superficies
the purely external aspect of a thing; superficial appearance; format
the general appearance of a publication; cast, form, shape
the visual appearance of something or someone; image, persona
(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; color, colour, gloss, semblance
an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; face
the general outward appearance of something; countenance, visage
the appearance conveyed by a person's face; hairiness, pilosity
the quality of having hair; hairlessness
the quality of not having hair; beauty
the qualities that give pleasure to the senses; affinity
a natural attraction or feeling of kinship; allure, allurement, temptingness
the power to entice or attract through personal charm; binding
the capacity to attract and hold something; drawing power
the capacity for attracting people (customers or supporters); fascination
the capacity to attract intense interest; come-on, enticement, lure
qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward; sexual attraction
attractiveness on the basis of sexual desire; show-stopper, showstopper
something that is strikingly attractive or has great popular appeal; ugliness
qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses; deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement
an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen; homeliness, plainness
an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful; blemish, defect, mar
a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); discoloration, discolouration, stain
a soiled or discolored appearance; plainness
the appearance of being plain and unpretentious; elaborateness, ornateness
an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated; decorativeness
an appearance that serves to decorate and make something more attractive; etiolation
a pale and sickly appearance; transparence, transparency, transparentness
the quality of being clear and transparent; semitransparency, translucence, translucency
the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely; visibility
capability of providing a clear unobstructed view; distinctness, sharpness
the quality of being sharp and clear; cloudiness, muddiness, murkiness
the quality of being cloudy; blurriness, fogginess, fuzziness, indistinctness, softness
the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines; fissiparity
the tendency to break into parts; effortlessness
the quality of requiring little effort; effortfulness
the quality of requiring deliberate effort; asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity
something hard to endure; hardness, ruggedness
the quality of being difficult to do; formidability, toughness
impressive difficulty; burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness
unwelcome burdensome difficulty; niceness, subtlety
the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze; inconvenience, troublesomeness, worriment
a difficulty that causes anxiety; flammability, inflammability
the quality of being easily ignited and burning rapidly; compatibility
capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination; incompatibility
the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination; appropriateness
the quality of being specially suitable; fitness, fittingness
the quality of being suitable; convenience
the quality of being useful and convenient; sharpness
the quality of being keenly and painfully felt; spinnbarkeit
the capacity of a viscous liquid (especially the cervical mucus) to be drawn out into a strand or blown up into a bubble; inappropriateness, unworthiness
the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting; unfitness
the quality of not being suitable; inconvenience
the quality of not being useful or convenient; mystique
an aura of heightened value or interest or meaning surrounding a person or thing; note
a characteristic emotional quality; vibe, vibration
a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively; admirability, admirableness, wonderfulness
admirable excellence; grandness, impressiveness, magnificence, richness
splendid or imposing in size or appearance; point, spot
an outstanding characteristic; point
a distinguishing or individuating characteristic; earmark, hallmark, stylemark, trademark
a distinctive characteristic or attribute; saving grace
a redeeming quality or characteristic; aspect
a characteristic to be considered; commutability, transmutability
the quality of being commutable; fluidity, fluidness
a changeable quality; reversibility
the quality of being reversible in either direction; shiftiness
the quality of being changeable in direction; changefulness, inconstancy
the quality of being changeable and variable; variability, variableness, variance
the quality of being subject to variation; exchangeability, fungibility, interchangeability, interchangeableness
the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange; progressiveness, progressivity
advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods; absoluteness
the quality of being absolute; constancy, stability
the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation; innateness
the quality of being innate; irreversibility
the quality of being irreversible (once done it cannot be changed); invariability, invariableness, invariance
the quality of being resistant to variation; fixedness, unalterability
the quality of being fixed and unchangeable; unexchangeability
the quality of being incapable of exchange or interchange; mutability, mutableness
the quality of being capable of mutation; fixity, immutability, immutableness
the quality of being incapable of mutation; distinctness, otherness, separateness
the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known; identicalness, identity, indistinguishability
exact sameness; similarity
the quality of being similar; equality
the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status; differential
a quality that differentiates between similar things; differentia
distinguishing characteristics (especially in different species of a genus); distinction
a distinguishing difference; disagreement, discrepancy, divergence, variance
a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; dissimilarity, unsimilarity
the quality of being dissimilar; change, variety
a difference that is usually pleasant; inequality
lack of equality; cert
an absolute certainty; ineluctability, unavoidability
the quality of being impossible to avoid or evade; inevitability, inevitableness
the quality of being unavoidable; surety
something clearly established; indisputability, indubitability, unquestionability, unquestionableness
the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt; moral certainty
certainty based on an inner conviction; predictability
the quality of being predictable; likelihood, likeliness
the probability of a specified outcome; slam dunk
something that is a sure to occur; a foregone conclusion; doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, question
uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something; indefiniteness, indefinity, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, indetermination
the quality of being vague and poorly defined; unpredictability
lacking predictability; improbability, improbableness
the quality of being improbable; fortuitousness
the quality of happening accidentally and by lucky chance; speculativeness
the quality of being a conclusion or opinion based on supposition and conjecture rather than on fact or investigation; concreteness
the quality of being concrete (not abstract); palpability, tangibility, tangibleness
the quality of being perceivable by touch; impalpability, intangibility, intangibleness
the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch; solidness, substantiality, substantialness
the quality of being substantial or having substance; insubstantiality
lacking substance or reality; abstractness
the quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object; reality
the quality possessed by something that is real; unreality
the quality possessed by something that is unreal; specificity
the quality of being specific rather than general; specificity
the quality of being specific to a particular organism; commonality, commonness
sharing of common attributes; pervasiveness
the quality of filling or spreading throughout; prevalence
the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread; catholicity, universality
the quality of being universal; existing everywhere; totality
the quality of being complete and indiscriminate; complicatedness, complication, knottiness, tortuousness
puzzling complexity; elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy, involution
marked by elaborately complex detail; tapestry
something that resembles a tapestry in its complex pictorial designs; trickiness
the quality of requiring skill or caution; cyclicity, periodicity
the quality of recurring at regular intervals; methodicalness, orderliness
the quality of appreciating method and system; uniformity
a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying; inhomogeneity
the quality of being inhomogeneous; evenness, invariability
a quality of uniformity and lack of variation; even spacing
regularity of spacing; steadiness
the quality of being steady--regular and unvarying; fitfulness, jerkiness
the quality of being spasmodic and irregular; intermittence, intermittency
the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping; fluctuation, wavering
the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes; haphazardness, noise, randomness, stochasticity
the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan; unevenness, variability
the quality of being uneven and lacking uniformity; unsteadiness
the quality of being unsteady--varying and unpredictable; locomotion, motive power, motivity
the power or ability to move; motility
ability to move spontaneously and independently; movability, movableness
the quality of being movable; capable of being moved or rearranged; maneuverability, manoeuvrability
the quality of being maneuverable; manipulability
the quality of being controllable by skilled movements of the hands; restlessness
the quality of being ceaselessly moving or active; immotility
lacking an ability to move; inertness
immobility by virtue of being inert; immovability, immovableness
not capable of being moved or rearranged; agreeableness, amenity
pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions; enjoyableness
pleasantness resulting from something that can be enjoyed; niceness
the quality of nice; disagreeableness
the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant; nastiness
the quality of being unpleasant; distastefulness, odiousness, offensiveness
the quality of being offensive; awfulness, dreadfulness, horridness, terribleness
a quality of extreme unpleasantness; authenticity, genuineness, legitimacy
undisputed credibility; cogency, rigor, rigour, validity
the quality of being valid and rigorous; plausibility, plausibleness
apparent validity; implausibility, implausibleness
the quality of provoking disbelief; cred, street cred, street credibility
credibility among young fashionable urban individuals; rationality, rationalness
the quality of being consistent with or based on logic; consistency
(logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another; completeness
(logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that a contradiction arises if any proposition is introduced that cannot be derived from the axioms of the system; unaffectedness
not affected; a personal manner that is not consciously constrained; simmpleness, simplicity
absence of affectation or pretense; sincerity, unassumingness
a quality of naturalness and simplicity; spontaneity, spontaneousness
the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint; ease, informality
freedom from constraint or embarrassment; unpretentiousness
the quality of being natural and without pretensions; naturalisation, naturalization
the quality of being brought into conformity with nature; affectedness
the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others); artificiality
the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally; largeness, pretension, pretentiousness
the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth); supernaturalism, supernaturalness
the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces; nutritiousness, nutritiveness
the quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth; healthfulness
the quality of promoting good health; harmfulness, noisomeness, noxiousness
the quality of being noxious; perniciousness, toxicity
grave harmfulness or deadliness; deadliness, lethality
the quality of being deadly; jejuneness, jejunity
quality of lacking nutritive value; putrescence, rottenness
the quality of rotting and becoming putrid; unhealthfulness
the quality of promoting poor health; adequacy, adequateness
the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: "he questioned the adequacy of the usual sentimental interpretation of the Golden Rule"; acceptability, acceptableness
satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards; inadequacy, inadequateness
unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate; perishability, perishableness
unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being subject to decay or spoilage or destruction; unacceptability, unacceptableness
unsatisfactoriness by virtue of not conforming to approved standards; averageness, mediocrity
ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding; expectedness
ordinariness as a consequence of being expected and not surprising; commonness, commonplaceness, everydayness
ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace; surprisingness, unexpectedness
extraordinariness by virtue of being unexpected; uncommonness
extraordinariness as a consequence of being rare and seldom encountered; uncommonness
extraordinariness as a consequence of being marked by an uncommon or superlative quality; exoticism, exoticness, exotism
the quality of being exotic; alienage, alienism
the quality of being alien; autochthony, endemism, indigenousness
nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place); freshness, novelty
originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel; heterodoxy, unorthodoxy
the quality of being unorthodox; orthodoxy
the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion); erroneousness, error
inadvertent incorrectness; exactitude, exactness
the quality of being exact; fidelity
accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal; inexactitude, inexactness
the quality of being inaccurate and having errors; looseness
a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice; worthiness
the quality or state of having merit or value; unworthiness
the quality or state of lacking merit or value; hot stuff
the quality of being popular; legality
lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute; legitimacy
lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law; licitness
the quality of strictly conforming to law; illegality
unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute; invalidity, invalidness
illogicality as a consequence of having a conclusion that does not follow from the premisses; illegitimacy
unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with law; illicitness
the quality of not conforming strictly to law; shadiness
of questionable honesty or legality; civilisation, civilization, refinement
the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste; dash, elan, flair, panache, style
distinctive and stylish elegance; daintiness, delicacy, fineness
the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance; courtliness
elegance suggestive of a royal court; tastefulness
elegance indicated by good taste; breeding, genteelness, gentility
elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression; chic, chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank
elegance by virtue of being fashionable; brilliance, grandeur, grandness, magnificence, splendor, splendour
the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand; eclat, pomp
ceremonial elegance and splendor; class
elegance in dress or behavior; awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness
the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment); dowdiness, drabness, homeliness
having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance; manginess, seediness, shabbiness, sleaziness
a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing; tweediness
an informal, homely, outdoor look characteristic of those who wear tweeds; coarseness, commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism, vulgarity
the quality of lacking taste and refinement; crudeness, roughness
an unpolished unrefined quality; boorishness, uncouthness
inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor; inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity; tastelessness
inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste; legibility, readability
a quality of writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read; intelligibility
the quality of language that is comprehensible; picturesqueness
the quality of being strikingly expressive or vivid; clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity
free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression; coherence, coherency
logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts; inscrutability
the quality of being impossible to investigate; illegibility
the quality of writing (print or handwriting) that cannot be deciphered; impenetrability, impenetrableness
incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand; noise
incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks; opacity, opaqueness
incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning; abstruseness, obscureness, obscurity, reconditeness
the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand; unintelligibility
incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible; unclearness
incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear; righteousness
adhering to moral principles; unrighteousness
failure to adhere to moral principles; humanity
the quality of being humane; mercifulness, mercy
a disposition to be kind and forgiving; atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness
the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane; bestiality
the stupid brutal quality of a beast; mercilessness, unmercifulness
inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving; sensitiveness, sensitivity
the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment; insensitiveness, insensitivity
the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment; rightness
according with conscience or morality; conscience
conformity to one's own sense of right conduct; good, goodness
moral excellence or admirableness; chastity, sexual morality, virtue
morality with respect to sexual relations; corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction
moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; corruptibility
the capability of being corrupted; licentiousness, wantonness
the quality of being lewd and lascivious; anomie, anomy
lack of moral standards in a society; wrongness
contrary to conscience or morality; evil, evilness
the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; sacredness
the quality of being sacred; profaneness, unsanctification
unholiness by virtue of being profane; safeness
the quality of being safe; dangerousness
the quality of not being safe; curability, curableness
capability of being cured or healed; incurability, incurableness
incapability of being cured or healed; maternal quality, maternalism, maternity, motherliness
the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother; fatherliness, paternal quality
the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father; constancy
faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity); dedication
complete and wholehearted fidelity; loyalty, trueness
the quality of being loyal; faithlessness, falseness, fickleness, inconstancy
unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous; disloyalty
the quality of being disloyal; artlessness, ingenuousness, innocence, naturalness
the quality of innocent naivete; credulousness, gullibility
tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived; simple mindedness, simpleness, simplicity
a lack of penetration or subtlety; directness, straightness
trueness of course toward a goal; indirectness
having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal; robustness
the characteristic of being strong enough to withstand intellectual challenge; ruralism, rurality
a rural characteristic or trait; streak
a distinctive characteristic; sleekness
the quality of being well-groomed and neatly tailored; harshness, roughness
the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses; effectiveness, potency, strength
capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects; valence, valency
(chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent); valence, valency
(biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate; ampleness
the property of being more than sufficient; comfortable sufficiency; value
the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable; merit, virtue
any admirable quality or attribute; demerit, fault
the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection; praisworthiness
the property of deserving praise; worthwhileness
value sufficient to repay time or effort spent; fecklessness
worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual; groundlessness, idleness
the quality of lacking substance or value; paltriness, sorriness
worthlessness due to insignificance; valuelessness
having none of the properties that endow something with value; shoddiness, trashiness
the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better; damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn
something of little value; emptiness, vanity
the quality of being valueless or futile; price
the high value or worth of something; desirability, desirableness
the quality of being worthy of desiring; undesirability
the quality possessed by something that should be avoided; benefit, welfare
something that aids or promotes well-being; better
something superior in quality or condition or effect; better
the superior one of two alternatives; optimum
most favorable conditions or greatest degree or amount possible under given circumstances; worse
something inferior in quality or condition or effect; evil
that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune; fertility, prolificacy, rankness, richness
the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; productiveness, productivity
the quality of being productive or having the power to produce; poorness
less than adequate; unproductiveness
the quality of lacking the power to produce; detergence, detergency
detergent quality; the quality of having cleansing power; function, purpose, role, use
what something is used for; helpfulness
the property of providing useful assistance; use
a particular service; serviceability, serviceableness, usability, usableness, useableness
the quality of being able to provide good service; instrumentality
the quality of being instrumental for some purpose; futility
uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result; worthlessness
the quality of being without practical use; practicality
concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities; practicability, practicableness
the quality of being usable; impracticality
concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use; impracticability, impracticableness
the quality of not being usable; competence, competency
the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually; incompetence, incompetency
lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications; resource
a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed; advantage, vantage
the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; forte, long suit, metier, speciality, specialty, strength, strong point, strong suit
an asset of special worth or utility; soundness, wisdom, wiseness
the quality of being prudent and sensible; unsoundness
not mentally or physically healthy; liability
the quality of being something that holds you back; inadvisability
the quality of being ill-advised; harmfulness, injuriousness
destructiveness that causes harm or injury; poison
anything that harms or destroys; assertiveness, self-assertiveness
aggressive self-assurance; given to making bold assertions; preponderance
superiority in power or influence; puissance
power to influence or coerce; persuasiveness, strength
the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty; irresistibility, irresistibleness
the quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist; interest, interestingness
the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.); chokehold, stranglehold, throttlehold
complete power over a person or situation; sway
controlling influence; influence
a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc; repellant, repellent
the power to repel; control
power to direct or determine; jurisdiction, legal power
(law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law; disposal
the power to use something or someone; discretion, free will
the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies; veto
the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature); effectiveness, effectivity, effectuality, effectualness
power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect; form
an ability to perform well; interoperability
(computer science) the ability to exchange and use information (usually in a large heterogeneous network made up of several local area networks); magical ability, magical power
an ability to perform magic; Midas touch
an ability to make and manage large amounts of money; penetration
the ability to make way into or through something; physical ability
the ability to perform some physical act; contrasting with mental ability; contractility
the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter; capability, capableness
the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally; helplessness, impuissance, weakness
powerlessness revealed by an inability to act; unpersuasiveness
inability to persuade; uninterestingness
inability to capture or hold one's interest; voicelessness
having no voice in the management or control of affairs; paper tiger
the nature of a person or organization that appears powerful but is actually powerless and ineffectual; incapability, incapableness
the quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally; ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness
lacking the power to be effective; stardust
a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality; ratability
the quality of being capable of being rated or estimated; scalability
the quality of being scalable; comicality
the quality of being comical; frigidity, frigidness
sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse; resistance
the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria); totipotence, totipotency
the ability of a cell to give rise to unlike cells and so to develop a new organism or part; immunocompetence
the ability to develop an immune response following exposure to an antigen; insufficiency
(pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally

Type of:: attribute
an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity

n a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something

“each town has a quality all its own”

Synonyms:: character, lineament

Types:: texture
the essential quality of something

Type of:: attribute, dimension, property
a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished

n (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)

Synonyms:: timber, timbre, tone

Types:: show 10 types...; hide 10 types...; 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; color, coloration, colour, colouration
the timbre of a musical sound; nasality
a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators; plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy
having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant; shrillness, stridence, stridency
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; nasal twang, twang
exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects); head register, head tone, head voice
the higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing; the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head; chest register, chest tone, chest voice
the lower ranges of the voice in speaking or singing

Type of:: sound property
an attribute of sound

n a degree or grade of excellence or worth

“the quality of students has risen”

Synonyms:: caliber, calibre

Types:: show 10 types...; hide 10 types...; high quality, superiority
the quality of being superior; inferiority, low quality
an inferior quality; choiceness, fineness
the quality of being very good indeed; first class
the highest rank in a classification; first water
the highest quality gems; cleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity
the property of being ingenious; poorness
the quality of being poorly made or maintained; scrawniness, scrubbiness
the property of being stunted and inferior in size or quality; second class
not the highest quality in a classification; wretchedness
the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry

Type of:: degree, grade, level
a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality

n high social status

“a man of quality”

Type of:: rank, social rank, social station, social status
position in a social hierarchy

adj of superior grade

“quality paper”

Synonyms:: choice, prime, prize, select

: superior
of high or superior quality or performance

adj of high social status

“people of quality”

“a quality family”

Synonyms: upper-class
occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society

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