qualities
plural of “quality” — an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
An inflected form of quality · plural.
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,657 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,279 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone the quality of mercy is not strained
- a degree or grade of excellence or worth also: caliber, calibre the quality of students has risenan executive of low caliber
- a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something also: character, lineament each town has a quality all its ownthe radical character of our demands
- (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) also: timbre, timber, tone the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovelythe muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet
- high social status a man of quality
qualities in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Her many good qualities came back to me.
The Reflections of Ambrosine: A Novel · Elinor Glyn · Chapter 1
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Mary Ray did not seem to have many qualities in common with her husband.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance · Hall, Sir Caine · Chapter 1
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The finest among his many fine qualities was his boyish appetite for the colour and poetry of London.
The Club of Queer Trades · G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton · Chapter 1
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These qualities are not confined to the one speaker, for his opponent was no less adroit and ready.
Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters · Abraham Lincoln · Chapter 1
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No Messenger but thine, and all alone, to night Wee'l wander through the streets, and note The qualities of people.
Antony and Cleopatra · William Shakespeare · Chapter 1