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characteristic
something that is typical of someone or something and makes them easy to recognize:
• He had several characteristics which made him different to the rest of his family. • the physical characteristics of the brain • He studied the special characteristics of adult speech addressed to children.
quality
a characteristic of a person, especially a good one such as kindness or intelligence:
• Tina has a lot of good qualities. • I’m not sure about his leadership qualities. • Obedience is a quality that my father admires.
feature
an important or interesting characteristic of something:
• it seems to be a feature of modern society that we tend to judge ourselves by our work above everything else. • A curious feature of the novel is the absence of women. • The building still has many of its original features.
property
[ usually plural ] technical a characteristic of a substance or object, for example hardness or elasticity, or how it behaves - used especially in scientific contexts:
• We examined the physical properties of various metals. • changes in the electrical properties of cells • Some plants have healing properties.
attribute
formal a good or useful characteristic:
• I suspected I probably did not quite possess all the attributes required to succeed at the highest level. • All living things are able to reproduce their kind, an attribute which no machine possesses..
good/bad points
good or bad characteristics – used when someone or something has both good and bad characteristics:
• The seller will obviously emphasize the car’s good points. • Draw up a list of your partner’s good and bad points.
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noun ADJ. defining, distinctive, distinguishing, identifying, individual, marked, special, striking, unique | personal | common, family, inherited, national, shared | basic, general | chief, dominant, main, major, outstanding, principal | essential, fundamental, important, key, salient | desirable | behavioural, biological, cultural, demographic, economic, genetic, physical, psychological, racial, sexual, social | human VERB + CHARACTERISTIC have The two species have several characteristics in common., adj. VERBS be | become ADV. deeply, extremely, highly, very his highly characteristic features | entirely, utterly | fairly, quite PREP. of a problem that was fairly characteristic of late eighteenth century society
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