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How to sign: an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
"the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare;
Categories: attribute
Within this category: ability, accuracy, accuracy, air, amorality, appearance, asset, attraction, bad, certainty, changeableness, changelessness, characteristic, clearness, complexity, comprehensibility, constructiveness, correctness, counterfactuality, credibility, destructiveness, difference, difficulty, distinction, divinity, divisibility, domesticity, ease, elegance, ethnicity, excellence, expressiveness, extraordinariness, factuality, fidelity, finiteness, foreignness, fruitfulness, fruitlessness, generality, good, holiness, hot stuff, humaneness, humanness, humor, ideality, illogicality, immateriality, immobility, immorality, inability, inaccuracy, incomprehensibility, incorrectness, incredibility, inelegance, infidelity, infiniteness, inhumaneness, insolubility, inutility, irregularity, lawfulness, logicality, materiality, mobility, morality, naivete, nativeness, naturalness, nature, negativism, occidentalism, opacity, ordinariness, orientalism, originality, parental quality, particularity, pathos, pleasantness, popularity, positivism, power, powerlessness, probability, quantifiability, regularity, responsiveness, romanticism, sameness, satisfactoriness, simplicity, solubility, sophistication, stuff, subjectivism, sufficiency, suitability, tone, ulteriority, uncertainty, unholiness, unlawfulness, unnaturalness, unoriginality, unpleasantness, unpopularity, unresponsiveness, unsatisfactoriness, unsuitability, unwholesomeness, utility, virtu, wholesomeness, worth, worthlessness
How to sign: a degree or grade of excellence or worth
"the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber";
Similiar / Same: caliber, calibre
Categories: degree, grade, level
Within this category: inferiority, superiority
How to sign: (music) 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";
Similiar / Same: timbre, tone, timber
Categories: sound property
Within this category: color, fullness, harshness, nasality, plangency, register, resonance, shrillness
