traits
- 1Plural of trait.
Researchers identified several personality traits linked to long-term happiness.
Many of these flowering plants share traits that help them survive drought.
Note
A regular plural, made with a simple -s, that serves both meanings of trait. In everyday and scientific use it gathers identifying characteristics, habits or trends into a set: personality traits, traits a group shares. Programmers use the same plural for the bundles of methods that lend functionality to a class through the class's own interface. These bundles can never be instantiated on their own.
traits is a form of trait
trait, noun: An identifying characteristic, habit, or tendency that distinguishes a person, animal, or thing. Full entry
- Forms
- traittraits plural
- Spelling
- trait → traits: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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