Noun

• S: (n) feature, characteristic (a prominent attribute or aspect of something) "the map showed roads and other features"; "generosity is one of his best characteristics"
• S: (n) characteristic (a distinguishing quality)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) recommendation, passport (any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission) "her pleasant personality is already a recommendation"; "his wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society"
• S: (n) compatibility (capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination)
• S: (n) incompatibility (the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination)
• S: (n) point, spot (an outstanding characteristic) "his acting was one of the high points of the movie"
• S: (n) point (a distinguishing or individuating characteristic) "he knows my bad points as well as my good points"
• S: (n) hallmark, trademark, earmark, stylemark (a distinctive characteristic or attribute)
• S: (n) saving grace (a redeeming quality or characteristic) "her love of music remains her one saving grace"; "her sense of humor has to be a saving grace"; "the saving grace for both developments is that they are creating jobs"
• S: (n) aspect (a characteristic to be considered)
• S: (n) safeness (the quality of being safe)
• S: (n) dangerousness (the quality of not being safe)
• S: (n) curability, curableness (capability of being cured or healed)
• S: (n) incurability, incurableness (incapability of being cured or healed)
• S: (n) directness, straightness (trueness of course toward a goal) "rivaling a hawk in directness of aim"
• S: (n) indirectness (having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal)
• S: (n) robustness (the characteristic of being strong enough to withstand intellectual challenge) "the lack of robustness in the findings may be due to the small size of the sample"
• S: (n) rurality, ruralism (a rural characteristic or trait) "a place with the rurality of a turnip field"
• S: (n) streak (a distinctive characteristic) "he has a stubborn streak"; "a streak of wildness"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone) "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare
• S: (n) attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• part holonym
• S: (n) nature (the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized) "it is the nature of fire to burn"; "the true nature of jealousy"
• derivationally related form
• W: (adj) characteristic [Related to: characteristic] (typical or distinctive) "heard my friend's characteristic laugh"; "red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn"; "stripes characteristic of the zebra"
• S: (n) characteristic (the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2)
• S: (n) characteristic, device characteristic (any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions)
• domain category
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term

Adjective

• S: (adj) characteristic (typical or distinctive) "heard my friend's characteristic laugh"; "red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn"; "stripes characteristic of the zebra"
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• derivationally related form