# quality

Pronunciation: US say "KWAH-luh-tee" /ˈkwɑ.lə.ti/; UK say "KWOL-i-tee" /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti/

## Noun

1. The standard of something as measured against other things of its kind; how good or bad it is, including how well made and free from faults it is.
   - Simple: How good or bad something is, including how well it is made and whether it has faults.
   - _Reviewers praised the quality of the orchestra's performance._
   - _The quality of her sleep improved once she stopped checking her phone at night._
3. A characteristic, attribute, or particular character of a person or thing, especially one that sets it apart from others.
   - Simple: A feature of someone or something, or what something is like.
   - _Patience is an essential quality in anyone who teaches young children._
   - _The new alloy has several qualities that make it ideal for aircraft._
4. A newspaper offering relatively serious, high-quality content, as distinguished from the popular tabloids. *(UK)*
   - Simple: A serious newspaper that reports the news carefully and in depth.
   - _Most of the qualities ran long pieces on the budget, while the tabloids led with a football scandal._
   - _Britain's qualities devoted several pages to the public inquiry._

## Adjective

2. Well made, of good worth, and fit for its purpose; of a high standard.
   - Simple: Well made and good enough for the job it is meant to do.
   - _She only buys quality ingredients for her bakery._
   - _A quality education prepares students for many different challenges._

## Noun

5. Social position or rank, especially high rank; membership of the upper classes. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: In old use, a person's rank in society, especially a high rank.

## Other meanings

- (noun) For a mixture of liquid and vapor in two phases, the fraction of the total mass that is vapor.

## Origin

Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- ("who, how") lies behind Latin quālis ("of what kind"), from which came quālitās. This passed into Old French as qualité and into Middle English as qualite. Cicero created the Latin qualitas as a calque of Ancient Greek ποιότης (poiótēs), a word Plato had built from ποῖος ("of what nature, of what kind").

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