WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language. It was created and is being maintained at the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller.
The purpose is twofold: to produce a combination of dictionary and thesaurus that is more intuitively usable, and to support automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications.
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caliber, calibre, character, choice, lineament, prime(a), prize, quality, select, timber, timbre, tone,
1. NOUN. (quality)
an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
"the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare
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appearance, visual aspect, attraction, attractiveness, clearness, clarity, uncloudedness, opacity, opaqueness, divisibility, ease, easiness, simplicity, difficulty, difficultness, suitability, suitableness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, ineptness, nature, humanness, humanity, manhood, air, aura, atmosphere, excellence, characteristic, changeableness, changeability, changelessness, unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness, sameness, difference, certainty, sure thing, foregone conclusion, probability, uncertainty, uncertainness, factuality, factualness, counterfactuality, materiality, physicalness, corporeality, immateriality, incorporeality, particularity, generality, simplicity, simpleness, complexity, complexness, regularity, irregularity, unregularity, mobility, immobility, pleasantness, sweetness, unpleasantness, credibility, credibleness, believability, incredibility, incredibleness, logicality, logicalness, illogicality, illogicalness, illogic, naturalness, unnaturalness, virtu, vertu, wholesomeness, unwholesomeness, morbidness, morbidity, satisfactoriness, unsatisfactoriness, ordinariness, extraordinariness, ethnicity, foreignness, strangeness, curiousness, nativeness, originality, unoriginality, correctness, rightness, incorrectness, wrongness, accuracy, truth, accuracy, inaccuracy, distinction, popularity, unpopularity, lawfulness, unlawfulness, elegance, inelegance, comprehensibility, understandability, expressiveness, incomprehensibility, humaneness, inhumaneness, inhumanity, morality, immorality, amorality, divinity, holiness, sanctity, ideality, unholiness, parental quality, fidelity, faithfulness, infidelity, unfaithfulness, sophistication, worldliness, naivete, naivety, naiveness, sufficiency, adequacy, worth, worthlessness, good, goodness, bad, badness, fruitfulness, fecundity, fruitlessness, aridity, barrenness, utility, usefulness, inutility, uselessness, unusefulness, asset, plus, constructiveness, destructiveness, positivism, positivity, negativism, negativity, occidentalism, orientalism, power, powerfulness, ability, powerlessness, impotence, impotency, inability, unfitness, romanticism, romance, domesticity, infiniteness, infinitude, unboundedness, boundlessness, limitlessness, finiteness, finitude, boundedness, quantifiability, measurability, solubility, insolubility, stuff, hot stuff, humor, humour, pathos, poignancy, tone, responsiveness, unresponsiveness, subjectivism, ulteriority,
2. NOUN. (quality)
a degree or grade of excellence or worth
"the quality of students has risen"
"an executive of low caliber"
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3. NOUN. (quality)
(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
"the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"
"the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"
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resonance, color, colour, coloration, colouration, harshness, roughness, fullness, mellowness, richness, nasality, plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy, shrillness, stridence, stridency, register,
4. NOUN. (quality)
a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
"each town has a quality all its own"
"the radical character of our demands"
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characterize, characterise, qualify, characterize, characterise, characterize, characterise, qualify, characterize, characterise, qualify, characterize, characterise, qualify, restrict,
