Quality

Noun

 * 1)  Level of excellence
 * This school is well-known for having teachers of high quality.
 * Quality of life is usually determined by health, education, and income.
 * 1)  A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.
 * One of the qualities of pure iron is that it does not rust easily.
 * While being impulsive can be great for artists, it is not a desirable quality for engineers.
 * Security, stability, and efficiency are good qualities of an operating system.
 * 1)  In a two-phase liquid-vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.
 * 2)  High social position. (See also the quality:.)
 * A peasant is not allowed to fall in love with a lady of quality.
 * Membership of this golf club is limited to those of quality and wealth.
 * 1)  The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items.
 * Membership of this golf club is limited to those of quality and wealth.
 * 1)  The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:characteristic

Coordinate terms

 * quiddity

Derived terms

 * human quality
 * industrial quality
 * quality time
 * quality of life


 * the quality, the Quality
 * total quality management
 * qualitative

Related terms

 * qualify

Adjective

 * 1) Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.
 * We only sell quality products.
 * That was a quality game by Jim Smith.
 * A quality system ensures products meet customer requirements.
 * 1) * Harriet (a Cambridge University student), quoted in John Ahier, John Beck, Rob Moore, Graduate Citizens?: Issues of Citizenship and Higher Education, Routledge (2003), ISBN 978-0-415-25722-0, page 114:
 * I mean a lot of the money that obviously goes into universities and their libraries and their facilities and their academics and stuff but I mean I haven’t had a very quality degree to be honest. I think the quality of my education has been crap . ..
 * 1) * 2004, Vance M. Thompson, MD, in J. Kevin Belville and Ronald J. Smith (editors), LASIK Techniques: Pearls and Pitfalls, SLACK Incorporated, ISBN 978-1-55642-622-3, page 187:
 * For one I wanted to have what I considered a very quality tracking device.
 * 1) * 2008, Carl Erskine, in Fay Vincent, We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-1-4165-5342-7, page 144:
 * A very quality ball club; that was the Braves.

Derived terms

 * qualityness

Adjectives for Quality
absorptive; abstract; adaptive; academic; acoustical; adhering; administrative; aesthetic; affectionate;  affrontive;  allotted; analytical; anecdotal; antipyretic; appealing; ardent; aristocratic; artistic; atmospheric; authoritative; available; average; blended; blooming; blossom-like; brilliant; cardinal; characteristic; charming; childlike; companionable; chivalric; considerable; contradictory; cooking; correspondent; dependable; daredevil; decorative; deep-reaching; deep-rooted; demonstrable; desirable; despised; determining; developmental.

Thesaurus
Al, Grade A, acquired taste, advantageousness, affection, affirmation, agreeableness, air, ancestry, appreciation of excellence, arete, aristocracy, aristocraticalness, aroma, atmosphere, attribute, aura, auspiciousness, badge, beneficialness, benevolence, benignity, birth, blood, blue blood, blue-ribbon, body-build, brand, cachet, caliber, capacity, cast, character, characteristic, characteristics, choiceness, civilized taste, civilizedness, class, climate, cogency, complexion, composition, condition, configuration, constituents, constitution, crasis, cultivated taste, cultivation, culture, cut, daintiness, delicacy, desert, dharma, diathesis, differentia, differential, dignity, discrimination, disposition, distinction, distinctive feature, earmark, elegance, element, elite, eminence, ethos, excellence, excellency, expedience, factor, fairness, fastidiousness, favorableness, feature, feel, feeling, fiber, figure, fine, fineness, finesse, first-class, first-rate, first-rateness, flavor, flower, footing, frame, genius, genteelness, gentility, gentry, good taste, goodliness, goodness, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, grade, grain, grandeur, gust, habit, hallmark, healthiness, helpfulness, honorable descent, hue, humor, humors, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, ilk, importance, impress, impression, index, individualism, individuality, keynote, kind, kindness, lineaments, makeup, mannerism, mark, marking, merit, milieu, mold, nature, niceness, nicety, nobility, noble birth, nobleness, note, odor, overtone, parameter, part, particularity, patriciate, peculiarity, perfection, physique, place, pleasantness, polish, position, predication, prime, profitableness, prominence, property, quirk, rank, refinement, relation, rewardingness, role, royalty, savor, seal, sense, shape, singularity, situation, skillfulness, smack, society, somatotype, sophistication, sort, soundness, specialty, spirit, stamp, standing, state, station, stature, status, streak, stripe, subtlety, suchness, superbness, superior, superiority, supremacy, system, taint, tang, taste, tastefulness, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, token, tone, trait, trick, type, undertone, upper class, usefulness, validity, value, vein, virtue, virtuousness, way, wholeness, worth

Etymology
From, from qualité:, from  qualitatem:, accusative of qualitas:, from qualis:, from Proto-Indo-European pronominal base. Cicero coined qualitas: as a calque to translate the Ancient Greek word ποιότης:, coined by Plato from ποῖος:.

Noun

 * Arabic: (nawʻíyya)
 * Catalan: qualitat
 * Chinese: 質量, 质量 (zhìliàng), 品质, 品質 (pǐnzhì), 水准, 水準 (shuǐzhǔn)
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: kvalitet
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ხარისხი
 * German:
 * Hebrew: איכות (ikhut)
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Japanese:


 * Korean: 질, 質 (jil); 품질, 品質 (pumjil)
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: کیفیت, چونی,  کیفیت
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: качество (káčestvo) ; уровень (úroven’) (of life)
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: నాణ్యత (nanyatha)
 * Turkish: kaliteli


 * Catalan: quality
 * Chinese: 性质, 性質 (xìngzhì)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: თვისება
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: תכונה (tchuna), סגולה (sgula)
 * Hungarian:, sajátság
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 특질, 特質 (teukjil)
 * Polish: cecha, jakość , przymiot
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, kvalité,
 * Telugu: గుణం, లక్షణం


 * Finnish:


 * Persian: کسر وزنی بخار در مخلوط بخار-مایع


 * Chinese: 權貴, 权贵 (quánguì)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, säätyläisyys
 * Hebrew: מעמד חברתי גבוה


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Swedish:  ,


 * Finnish: ,


 * Portuguese: qualidade


 * : calidad
 * : calidade

Adjective

 * Catalan: de qualitat
 * Chinese: 優質, 优质 (yōuzhì); 高級, 高级 (gāojí)
 * Czech: kvalitní
 * Dutch: kwaliteits-
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: de qualité
 * German: hochklassig, hochwertig, Qualitäts-
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: איכותי (ikhuti)


 * Indonesian: berkualitas
 * Italian: di qualità, pregiato
 * Japanese: 品質の良い, 良質な
 * Korean: 품질 (pumjil)
 * Portuguese: de qualidade
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: de calidad
 * Swedish: s-

Related terms

 * qualia
 * qualitative