quality

1. (satellite adjective) of high social status; "people of quality"; "a quality family"

2. (noun) an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare
Related Words: ability, accuracy, air, appearance, aridity, asset, atmosphere, attraction, attractiveness, attribute, aura, bad, badness, barrenness, believability, boundedness, boundlessness, certainty, changeability, changeableness, changelessness, characteristic, clarity, clearness, complexity, complexness, comprehensibility, constructiveness, corporeality, correctness, counterfactuality, credibility, credibleness, curiousness, destructiveness, difference, difficultness, difficulty, distinction, divinity, domesticity, ease, easiness, elegance, ethnicity, excellence, expressiveness, extraordinariness, factuality, factualness, fecundity, finiteness, finitude, foreignness, fruitfulness, fruitlessness, generality, good, goodness, holiness, hot stuff, humaneness, humanity, humanness, humor, humour, illogic, illogicality, illogicalness, immateriality, immobility, immorality, impotence, impotency, inability, inaccuracy, incomprehensibility, incorporeality, incorrectness, incredibility, incredibleness, inelegance, ineptness, infiniteness, infinitude, inhumaneness, inhumanity, insolubility, inutility, irregularity, lawfulness, limitlessness, logicality, logicalness, materiality, measurability, mobility, morality, morbidity, morbidness, naiveness, naivete, naivety, nativeness, naturalness, nature, negativism, negativity, opacity, opaqueness, ordinariness, originality, parental quality, particularity, pathos, physicalness, pleasantness, plus, poignancy, popularity, positivism, positivity, potency, power, powerfulness, powerlessness, probability, quantifiability, regularity, rightness, romance, romanticism, sameness, sanctity, satisfactoriness, simpleness, simplicity, solubility, sophistication, strangeness, stuff, suitability, suitableness, sweetness, tone, truth, unboundedness, uncertainness, uncertainty, unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness, uncloudedness, understandability, unfitness, unholiness, unlawfulness, unnaturalness, unoriginality, unpleasantness, unpopularity, unregularity, unsatisfactoriness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unusefulness, unwholesomeness, usefulness, uselessness, utility, vertu, virtu, visual aspect, wholesomeness, worldliness, worth, worthlessness, wrongness

3. (noun) a degree or grade of excellence or worth: "the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber"
Synonyms: caliber, calibre
Related Words: degree, grade, high quality, inferiority, level, low quality, superiority

4. (noun) a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something; "each town has a quality all its own"; "the radical character of our demands"
Synonyms: character, lineament
Related Words: attribute, dimension, property, texture

5. (noun) high social status; "a man of quality"
Related Words: rank, social rank, social station, social status

6. (noun) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"
Synonyms: timber, timbre, tone
Related Words: color, colour, fullness, harshness, mellowness, nasality, plangency, register, resonance, reverberance, richness, ringing, roughness, shrillness, sonority, sonorousness, sound property, stridence, stridency, vibrancy

7. (satellite adjective) of superior grade; "choice wines"; "fine wines" "prime beef"; "prize carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches"
Synonyms: choice, fine, prime, prize, select



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