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qual⋅i⋅ty

  [kwol-i-tee] noun, plural -ties, adjective
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–noun
1. an essential or distinctive characteristic, property, or attribute: the chemical qualities of alcohol.
2. character or nature, as belonging to or distinguishing a thing: the quality of a sound.
3. character with respect to fineness, or grade of excellence: food of poor quality; silks of fine quality.
4. high grade; superiority; excellence: wood grain of quality.
5. a personality or character trait: kindness is one of her many good qualities.
6. native excellence or superiority.
7. an accomplishment or attainment.
8. good or high social position: a man of quality.
9. the superiority or distinction associated with high social position.
10. Acoustics. the texture of a tone, dependent on its overtone content, that distinguishes it from others of the same pitch and loudness.
11. Phonetics. the tonal color, or timbre, that characterizes a particular vowel sound.
12. Logic. the character of a proposition as affirmative or negative.
13. Thermodynamics. the proportion or percentage of vapor in a mixture of liquid and vapor, as wet steam.
14. social status or position.
15. a person of high social position: He's quality, that one is.
–adjective
16. of or having superior quality: quality paper.
17. producing or providing products or services of high quality or merit: a quality publisher.
18. of or occupying high social status: a quality family.
19. marked by a concentrated expenditure of involvement, concern, or commitment: Counselors are urging that working parents try to spend more quality time with their children.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME qualite < OF < L quālitās, equiv. to quāl(is) of what sort + -itās -ity

Related forms:
qual⋅i⋅ty⋅less, adjective

Synonyms:
1. trait, character, feature. Quality, attribute, property agree in meaning a particular characteristic (of a person or thing). A quality is a characteristic, innate or acquired, that, in some particular, determines the nature and behavior of a person or thing: naturalness as a quality; the quality of meat. An attribute was originally a quality attributed, usually to a person or something personified; more recently it has meant a fundamental or innate characteristic: an attribute of God; attributes of a logical mind. Property applies only to things; it means a characteristic belonging specifically in the constitution of, or found (invariably) in, the behavior of a thing: physical properties of uranium or of limestone. 3. nature, kind, grade, sort, condition.
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Word Origin & History

quality 
c.1290, from O.Fr. qualite (12c., Fr. qualité), from L. qualitatem (nom. qualitas; said to have been coined by Cicero to translate Gk. poiotes), from qualis "of what sort," from PIE pronomial base *kwo- (see qua). Noun phrase quality time first recorded 1977. Quality of life is from 1943. Quality control first attested 1935.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: qual·i·ty
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -ties
1 : a special, distinctive, or essential character: as a : a character, position, or role assumed quality of heir —Louisiana Civil Code> b : the character of an estate as determined by the manner in which it is to be held or enjoyed
2 : degree of excellence quality>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: qual·i·ty
Pronunciation: 'kwäl-&t-E
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -ties
: a special ordistinguishing attribute: as a : TIMBRE b : the attribute of an elementary sensation that makesit fundamentally unlike any other sensation c : the character of an X-ray beam that determines its penetrating power and is dependent upon its wavelength distribution
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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