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Quality

QUAL'ITY, n. [L. qualitas, from qualis, such.]
1. Property; that which belongs to a body or substance, or can be predicated of it. Qualities are natural or accidental. thus whiteness is a natural quality of snow; softness is a natural quality of wool and fur; hardness is a natural quality of metals and wood; figure and dimension are the natural qualities of solids; but a particular figure, as a cube, a square or a sphere, is an accidental or adventitious quality. The fluidity of metals is an accidental quality. Essential qualities are such as are necessary to constitute a thing what it is. Sensible qualities are such as are perceptible to the senses, as the light of the sun, the color of cloth, the taste of salt or sugar, etc.
2. Nature, relatively considered; as the quality of an action, in regard to right and wrong.
Other creatures have not judgment to examine the quality of that which is done by them.
3. Virtue or particular power of producing certain effects; as the qualities of plants or medicines.
4. Disposition; temper.
Tonight we'll wander through the streets, and note the qualities of people.
5. Virtue or vice; as good qualities, or bad qualities.
6. Acquirement; accomplishment; as the qualities of horsemanship, dancing and fencing.
7. Character.
The attorney partakes of both qualities, that of a judge of the court, and that of attorney general.
8. Comparative rank; condition in relation to others; as people of every quality.
We obtained acquaintance with many citizens, not of the meanest quality.
9. Superior rank; superiority of birth or station; as persons of quality; ladies of quality.
10. Persons of high rank, collectively.
I shall appear at the masquerade dressed up in my feathers, that the quality may see how pretty they will look in their traveling habits.
quality appears in definitions for these words:
Abditive Abominableness About Absorbability Abstemiousness Abstersive Abstractive Absurdity Abtruseness Abusiveness Acceptableness Accessibility Accident Accidentalness Acerb Acidity Acidness Acrasy Acridness Acritude Active Activeness Activity Addictedness Adequacy Adherence Adhesiveness Adjective Adjunct Adjunctive Admirableness Admissibility Adorableness Adulterateness Advantageousness Adventuresomeness Adventurousness Adverb Advisableness Affability Affectedness Affection Affrontiveness Agency Agreeableness Aguishness Ale-taster Alexipharmic Alimental Alimentariness Alimentary Alkalinity All Allegoricalness Allow-ableness Alluring Alluringness Allusiveness Alterability Alterableness Alternateness Alternativeness Ambiguousness Ambitiousness Amethyst Amiableness Amicableness Amorousness Amphibiousness Analogicalness Angelicalness Angularity Angularness Answerableness Antaphrodisiac Antidotal Antiemetic Antifebrile Antihectic Antimonarchicalnes Antipatheticalness Antiperistasis Antipestilential Antiqueness Antiquity Anxiousness Aperient Apishness Apophlegmatic Apostolicalness Appeasableness Appetibility Appetitive Applicability Applicableness Apprehensiveness Appropriateness Aqueousness Arbitrariness Ardent Aristocraticalness Aroma Aromatizer Arrogance Articulateness Artificiality Artificialness Artlessness Ascribe Asperity Associability Associative Assort Assortment Astonishingness Astringency Atheisticalness Atrociousness Attainable Attainableness Attempered Attempering Attractability Attractive Attractiveness Attribute Attribution Audaciousness Audibleness Augmentative Authenticalness Authenticity Authoritativeness Authorship Avariciousness Awfulness Bane Barrenness Baseness Bashfulness Beardlessness Beauteousness Beautifulness Belong Belonging Benignity Bertram Bestiality Beyond Bibacity Bibulous Bitterishness Bitterness Blackness Blameworthiness Blitheness Blithesomeness Blueness Boiar Boil Boisterousness Boldness Boundlessness Bountifulness Brackishness Brassiness Brawniness Brinishness Brotherhood Bunchiness Buoyancy Buoyant Burdensomeness Burgess-ship Bushiness Caduceus Calamitousness Calorific Canonicalness Capability Capableness Capacity Capriciousness Captainship Cardiac Casualness Catagmatic Category Catharticalness Causticity Cautiousness Cementatory Cementitious Censoriousness Census Change Changeable Changeableness Chaplain Chief Cholagogue Circle Clamorousness Close Clumsiness Coarseness Cognomination Cohesiveness Cold Collusiveness Color Colorific Combustibility Comicalness Communicability Communicativeness Commutability Comparative Comparison Compassionateness Compatibility Comprehension Comprehensive Comprehensiveness Compressibility Compressibleness Compulsory Con Conceivableness Conciliating Conclusiveness Concrete Concubinage Concussive Condition Conditionality Conducibleness Conduciveness Confidentness Congenerousness Conicalness Conjunctiveness Conservant Conservatory Consolidant Constringent Consumptive Contagiousness Contemperament Contemperate Contemperation Contingency Contractibility Contractibleness Contractility Contraries Contrariety Contributive Convergence Convergency Conversableness Conversion Convertibility Correct Corrective Corroborant Corrodibility Corrosive Corrosiveness Corruptive Courage Credibility Criminality Criminalness Crustaceousness Crustiness Cubicalness Culpableness Cumbersomeness Damnableness Dark Darkness Deadliness Debase Debased Debasement Deceitfulness Deceptibility Deciduousness Decisive Decrease Defeasibleness Defective Deflagrability Deflagrable Degree Deleterious Delicacy Deliciousness Delightfulness Delusiveness Demonstrableness Denarcotize Denomination Depilatory Derogatoriness Descendibility Descriptiv Desirableness Despicableness Destructibility Destructive Destructiveness Deteriorate Deteriorated Deteriorating Deteriority Detractive Device Devoutness Diabolic Diabolical Difference Diffusibility Diffusive Diffusiveness Digestibility Dilatability Dilatoriness Disaffectedness Discommendableness Discreetness Disengagedness Disinterestedness Displeasingness Dissent Disserviceableness Dissolvent Distensibility Distinctness Distinguish Divisibility Dogmaticalness Dom Donship Draught Dreadfulness Drier Duality Ductileness Dueness Dukedom Dunning Durable E Earthiness Earthliness Eccoprotic Edulcorative Effective Effervescible Efficaciousness Effumability Elaborateness Electrometer Eligibility Elm Endow Endowment Enmity Epithet Equal Equality Equitableness Essence Essentiality Estate Estimableness Evasiveness Excellence Excessiveness Exchangeability Excitability Excitable Excretory Excusableness Executive Exemplariness Exfoliative Expansive Expansiveness Expectorant Expectorative Expensiveness Expressiveness Exsiccant Fabulousness Facetiousness Faculty Fallibility Falsity Fancifulness Fated Fatness Feasibility Febrifuge Feculence Fecundity Feminity Fertility Fetidness Feudality Fieriness Fiery Figurability Fissility Flake Flammability Flavor Flavored Flexibility Flimsiness Fluency Fluidity Fluxibility Fluxility Forgetfulness Forkedness Formality Formidableness Fortuitousness Foulness Frangibility Fraternity Freeness Frequentness Freshness Friableness Frightfulness Frivolousness Frostiness Fruitbearing Fruitfulness Fruitlessness Fugaciousness Fugacity Fusibility Fustiness Futility Generality Generosity Generousness Giantship Gift Glassiness Globosity Glueyness Gluten Glutinative Glutinosity Glutinous Glutinousness Goatish Good Goodyship Grancy Grandeur Gratefulness Grayness Greenishness Greenness Gregariousness Grittiness Guava Gum Gumminess Gummosity Gummous Gutturalness Hardness Harmful Harmlessness Hatefulness Haughtiness Heaviness Hermodactyl Heterogeneousness Humor Humorousness Hurt Hurtlessness Hydragogue Hypnotic Illability Illegibility Illustrative Imitability Imitate Immateriality Immeability Immensurability Immortality Immovableness Immutability Impalpability Impartibility Impassivity Impeccancy Impenetrability Imperceptibleness Imperishableness Impermeability Impertransibility Implacableness Implausibility Importance Impossibility Impracticableness Impressibility Impressiveness Improbability Improvability Imputableness In Inaccessibleness Inadequacy Inadequateness Inadmissibility Inalterability Inapplicability Incapableness Incestuousness Incisive Incisory Inclinatory Incombustibility Incommensurability Incommunicableness Incommutableness Incompatibility Incompossibility Incomprehensibilit Incompressibility Inconceivableness Incondensability Inconvertibility Incorporality Incorporate Incorporeity Incorrigibility Incorruptibility Incorruptibleness Incrassative Increase Increasing Incredibility Incredulity Indefeasibility Indefectibility Indefensibility Indeficiency Indefiniteness Indelibility Indestructibility Indifferent Indiscerptibility Indispensableness Indisputableness Indissolubility Indissolubleness Inductility Ineffableness Ineffervescibility Ineligibility Inequality Inertness Inexcusableness Inexorability Infallibleness Infeasibleness Infectiousness Infective Inferior Inferiority Infinitude Inflammableness Inflective Inflexibleness Ingeniousness Ingenuity Ingredient Inimitability Inirritability Injudiciousness Injuriousness Injury Inkiness Innateness Innocence Innocuousness Inoffensiveness Inscrutableness Inseparability Insolubility Inspect Inspecting Inspection Inspector Instantaneousness Insufficient Insuperability Insuperableness Insupportableness Intangibility Intelligibleness Intemperateness Intemperature Intension Intinctivity Intolerableness Intractability Intransmutability Inutility Invariableness Inveteracy Invidiousness Invincibility Inviolability Invitingness Invulnerableness Irascibleness Irreconcilableness Irredeemability Irreducibleness Irrefragability Irrelevancy Irremissibleness Irremovability Irreparability Irrepealability Irreprehensiblenes Irreproachableness Irresistibleness Irresolubleness Irritability Ischuretic Ish Isomorphism Jocoseness Judiciousness Justifiableness Keenness Knavishness Knobbiness Knottiness Laboriousness Land Lapidescent Lastingness Laterality Laudableness Lawfulness Lawlessness Laxative Laxativeness Laziness Legibility Legibleness Lenitive Lessen Libidinousness Lightness Lightsomeness Like Limberness Liquidity Liquidness Lithontriptic Liveliness Lixivial Loathsomeness Lordship Lothsomeness Ludicrousness Lull Luminousness Magneticalness Majesty Make Maliciousness Malleability Malleable Manageableness Manchineel Mannerliness Masculineness Match Matchlessness Mealiness Measurableness Mediocral Mellowness Melodiousness Meritoriousness Middling Mildness Modality Mode Moderate Modernness Mood Morality Mordacity Mordicancy Mordicant More Movableness Mucus Mundificative Musicalness Mustiness Mutability Mysteriousness Mysticalness Name Nappiness Narcoticness Nationality Natural Naturity Nauseousness Needle Negotiability Neighborliness Nervine Ness Neutrality Next Niceness Nitrometer Noisomeness Non-contagiousness Noxiousness Numerousness Nutritive Nutriture Oak Object Oblateness Obsceneness Odiousness Odium Odoriferousness Odorousness Offensiveness Oiliness Ominousness Omniformity Omniscience Oneness Opacity Opakeness Opiate Oppressiveness Originality Originalness Ost Osteocol Palatableness Palpability Palpableness Parching Pardonableness Passibility Passiveness Patheticalness Patience Patient Pattern Peccancy Penetrativeness Perceptibility Perfection Perfidiousness Permeability Pernicious Perniciousness Perspicuity Perspirability Persuasibleness Persuasiveness Perviousness Placableness Plaintiveness Plasticity Pleasingness Pleasurableness Plentifulness Pliability Pliableness Poisonousness Polarity Poor Poorness Porosity Porousness Portableness Positive Potableness Power Powerfulness Practicableness Practicalness Pragmaticalness Praiseworthiness Precipitability Predicability Predicament Preferable Preferableness Preposition Preservative Presumptuousness Prime Privation Producibleness Productiveness Profligateness Prolifical Proof Properness Property Proportionality Proposition Prove Provocativeness Provoking Prudentiality Pulchritude Pulpousness Pungency Punishableness Quality Questionableness Raciness Rancidity Rapaciousness Rashness Reasonableness Rebelliousness Receptive Receptivity Reconcilableness Recreativeness Redness Reducibleness Reflexibility Reintegrate Relaxative Religiousness Remarkableness Repealability Repellency Representativeness Repulsiveness Reputableness Resinousness Resistance Resistibility Respectability Respectfulness Restrictive Restringency Retentiveness Retromingency Revocableness Richness Ridiculousness Rigidity Rigidness Riotousness Risibility Rope Rosiness Roundness Ruggedness Ruinousness Ruralness Rusticalness Rye Sacrilegiousness Sagaciousness Saltness Salutariness Sample Sap Sapidity Saporosity Sappiness Savor Scabbiness Scandalousness Scornfulness Scrupulosity Scrupulousness Seal Searcher Second-rate Secretness Semi-pellucidity Sensibility Separability Separableness Severity Shammy Shortness Shrewdness Sickishness Signality Simpleness Simultaneousness Sinfulness Singularity Sinuosity Size Siziness Skillfulness Skinniness Slack Slanderousness Slavishness Slime Sliminess Slipperiness Slippery Smack Small Smart Smartness Smell Snappishness Sociality Socialness Softness Solemness Solidity Solidness Solubility Sonorific Sonorousness Sootiness Soporiferousness Soporific Sort Sound Sour Specimen Spectatorship Speediness Spericalness Spericity Spheroidity Spice Spirit Spirituality Spirituous Spirituousness Spontaneity Spottedness Spottiness Spunginess Spungy Spuriousness Staple State Sterility Sterling Sternutative Sternutatory Stickiness Sticky Stimulative Stoniness Straightness Strength Strikingness Strong Stupendousness Styptic Styptical Stypticity Suasory Sublimableness Superableness Superficiality Superinduce Superior Superiority Supernaturalness Suppleness Survey Surveyor Susceptibiility Suspiciousness Sweetishness Sweetness Sympathy Synonymy Takingness Talent Tamableness Tameness Tangibility Taste Tattle Teachableness Technicality Tediousnes Temperament Temperative Temperature Tenaciousness Tenacity Terribleness Thrilling Ticklishness Tincture Tiresomeness Tough Toughness Tractability Tractableness Tractility Traitorousness Transmissibility Transparentness Tremendousness Troublesomeness Trustiness Turningness Unaccountability Unchangeableness Unconceivableness Unconcluding Unconstitutionalit Uncreditableness Unctuosity Unctuousness Undefinableness Undiscernibleness Unentertainingness Unexceptionablenes Unexpectedness Unfadingness Unfailableness Unframableness Ungratefulness Unimprovableness Unintelligibility Unjustifiableness Unmalleability Unmerchantable Unpleasantness Unquenchableness Unreducibleness Unremovableness Unsatisfactoriness Unsearchableness Unseasonableness Unserviceableness Unsparingness Untaintedness Unteachableness Unwarranted Unwholesomeness Ustorious Usuriousness Validity Valor Vaporability Vavasory Vegetability Vegetativeness Vein Venerability Venerableness Versatility Vestment Vexatiousness Viciated Vigorousness Vindicability Vinosity Virtue Viscounty Viscousness Visibility Visibleness Vitreousness Vitrescence Vocality Volatileness Warrant Warrantableness Warranter Warranting Warranty Waveringness Wearisomeness Weight Whitishness Wholesomeness Wildness Wittiness Wonderfulness Wordiness Worth Worthiness Yellowishness Yellowness Yieldingness Zealousness

 

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