Established specifications for identity, purity, strength, composition, packaging, labeling, manufacturing, and storage. Quality can also be represented by how much time and energy is being used to accomplish tasks, or how many requirements are met.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
quality (noun)1.
a) peculiar and essential character - nature her ethereal quality Gay Talese
b) an inherent feature - property had a quality of stridence, dissonance Roald Dahl
c) - capacity role in the quality of reader and companion Joseph Conrad
2.
a) degree of excellence - grade the quality of competing air service Current Biography
b) superiority in kind - merchandise of quality
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a) social status - rank
b) - aristocracy
4.
a) a distinguishing attribute - characteristic possesses many fine qualities
b) archaic an acquired skill - accomplishment
5.
the character in a logical proposition of being affirmative or negative
6.
vividness of hue
7.
a) - timbre
b) the identifying character of a vowel sound determined chiefly by the resonance of the vocal chambers in uttering it
8.
the attribute of an elementary sensation that makes it fundamentally unlike any other sensation
being of high quality
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
quality (adjective)of the very best kind
SYNONYMS:
A-OK, A1, awesome, bang-up, banner, beautiful, blue-chip, blue-ribbon, boffo, bonny ( bonnie), boss, brag, brave, bully, bumper, capital, choice, classic, cool, corking, crackerjack, cracking, dandy, divine, dope, down, dynamite, fab, fabulous, famous, fantabulous, fantastic, fine, first-class, first-rate, first-string, five-star, four-star, frontline, gangbusters ( gangbuster), gilt-edged ( gilt-edge), gone, grand, great, groovy, heavenly, high-class, hot, hype, immense, jim-dandy, keen, lovely, marvelous ( marvellous), mean, neat, nifty, noble, number one ( No. 1), numero uno, out-of-sight, par excellence, peachy, peachy keen, phat, prime, primo, prize, prizewinning, quality, radical, righteous, sensational, slick, splendid, stellar, sterling, superb, superior, superlative, supernal, swell, terrific, tip-top, top, top-flight, top-notch, top-of-the-line, topping, top-shelf, unsurpassed, wizard, wonderfulRELATED WORDS:
acceptable, adequate, all right, decent, good, OK ( okay), passable, satisfactory, tolerable; better, exceptional, fancy, high-grade, high-test, premium, select, special, superfine; classical, standard, traditionalNEAR ANTONYMS:
bad, inferior, low-grade, substandard, unsatisfactory; mediocre, middling, second-class, second-rate1.
degree of excellence
SYNONYMS:
caliber ( calibre), class, grade, rateRELATED WORDS:
hallmark; mark; footing, place, position, rank, standing, stature, status; benchmark, criterion, measure, par, standard, touchstone, yardstick2.
high position within society
SYNONYMS:
class, dignity, fashion, quality, standing, stateRELATED WORDS:
gentility, gentleness, nobility, nobleness; grandness, highness, loftiness; distinction, dominance, precedence, preeminence, primacy, superiority; caste, station, status; prefermentNEAR ANTONYMS:
debasement, degradation; subordinateness, subordination; baseness, commonness, inferiority, lowliness, lowness3.
something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kind
SYNONYMS:
affection, attribute, attribution, character, criterion, diagnostic, differentia, feature, fingerprint, hallmark, mark, marker, note, particularity, peculiarity, point, property, quality, specific, stamp, touch, traitRELATED WORDS:
badge, indication, sign; emblem, symbol, token; charm, grace; excellence, merit, virtue; eccentricity, idiosyncrasy, oddity, quirk; individuality, singularity, uniqueness4.
the highest class in a society
SYNONYMS:
elite, gentility, gentlefolk ( gentlefolks), gentry, nobility, patriciate, quality, upper class, upper crustRELATED WORDS:
A-list, beau monde, beautiful people, café society, Four Hundred ( 400), glitterati, haut monde ( haute monde), jet set, society; carriage trade, plutocracyNEAR ANTONYMS:
commoners, (the) crowd, (the) masses, peasantry, peonage, (the) people, plebeians, plebs, (the) populace, (the) public, rank and file; bourgeoisie, middle class, working class; dregs, (the) herd, (the) mob, rabble, rabblement, riffraff, scum, trashQuality (Wikipedia)
Quality (Wiktionary)
English
Etymology
From Middle English qualite, from Old French qualité, from Latin quālitās, quālitātem, from quālis (“of what kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (“who, how”). Cicero coined qualitas as a calque to translate the Ancient Greek word ποιότης (poiótēs, “quality”), coined by Plato from ποῖος (poîos, “of what nature, of what kind”).
Pronunciation
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Quality, Distinction, Superiority, Eminence, Virtue, Worth, Value, Class, Rank, Level, Status, Standing, Degree, Measure, Criterion, Benchmark, Gauge, Yardstick, Norm, Par, Merit, Worthiness, Credit, Asset, Advantage, Benefit