quality

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from. Cicero coined as a calque to translate the 🇨🇬 word, coined by Plato from.

Noun

 * 1)  Level of excellence.
 * 2) * 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
 * He called for China’s cooperation in efforts to improve air quality.
 * 1)  Something that differentiates a thing or person.
 * 2)  Position; status; rank.
 * 3)  High social position. (See also .)
 * 4)  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.
 * 5)  In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.
 * 6)  The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.
 * 7)  A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content.
 * 1)  Position; status; rank.
 * 2)  High social position. (See also .)
 * 3)  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.
 * 4)  In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.
 * 5)  The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.
 * 6)  A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content.
 * 1)  High social position. (See also .)
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.
 * 4)  The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.
 * 5)  A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content.
 * 1)  The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.
 * 2)  A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content.
 * 1)  A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content.

Usage notes

 * Adjectives often applied to "quality": high, good, excellent, exceptional, great, outstanding, satisfactory, acceptable, sufficient, adequate, poor, low, bad, inferior, dubious, environmental, visual, optical, industrial, total, artistic, educational, physical, musical, chemical, spiritual, intellectual, architectural, mechanical.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:characteristic

Translations

 * Afrikaans: kwaliteit
 * Albanian: kualitet
 * Arabic: نَوْعِيَّة, جَوْدَة
 * Armenian:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܵܐܟ݂ܝܼܘܼܬܵܐ
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: kvaliteet
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ხარისხი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ποιότης
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, गुणवत्ता
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: qualitate
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: сапа
 * Khmer: គុណភាព
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: چۆنیەتی
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຄຸນນະພາບ
 * Latgalian: kaideiba
 * Latin: quālitās
 * Latvian: kādība, kvalitāte
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: квалите́т
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:, kualiti , kualitas
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: kounga
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠴᠢᠨᠠᠷ
 * Neapolitan: qualetà
 * Norman: qualitaï
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: hwelcnes
 * Oromo: waandansaa
 * Pashto: نوعيت
 * Persian:, کوالیته
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: квалите́та
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: kvalita, akosť
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: kaurian
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: hil
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:, گن
 * Uyghur: سۈپەت
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: קוואַליטעט


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: თვისება
 * German: ,
 * Alemannic German: Äigeschaft
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ποιότης
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: सिफ़त
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Interlingua: qualitate
 * Irish: dúchas, aitreabúid
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: គុណភាព
 * Korean:
 * Latgalian: kaideiba
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: одлика, особина
 * Norman: qualitaï
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: hwelcnes
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Ieejenschoft
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: kaurian
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: clase alta
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latgalian: stāte
 * Malagasy:
 * Portuguese: alta classe
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:  ,


 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:
 * Latgalian: kaideiba, patycameiba
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Tagalog: kaurian
 * Tamil:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: наді́йність


 * Finnish: höyrypitoisuus
 * Persian: کسر وزنی بخار در مخلوط بخار-مایع


 * Indonesian:

Adjective

 * 1) Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose; of high quality.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: de qualitat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: hyvälaatuinen, ,
 * French:
 * Galician: de calidade
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: איכותי
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: ardchaighdeáin
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Macedonian: квалите́тен
 * Malay: berkualiti, bermutu
 * Maori: tuawhiti
 * Portuguese: de qualidade
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ква̏лите̄тан
 * Roman:
 * Spanish: de calidad
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: