Synonym Study

• Trait specif. applies to a distinguishing quality of a person's character enthusiasm is one of his outstanding traits
• An attribute is a quality assigned to a thing, esp. one that may reasonably be deduced as appropriate to it omnipotence is an attribute of God
• Character , in this connection, is the scientific or formal term for a distinctive or peculiar quality of an individual or of a class, species, etc. a hereditary character
• Property applies to a quality that belongs to a thing by reason of the essential nature of the thing elasticity is a property of rubber
• Quality , the broadest in scope of these terms, refers to a characteristic (physical or nonphysical, individual or typical) that constitutes the basic nature of a thing or is one of its distinguishing features the quality of mercy