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性質 — meaning in English

seishitsu

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English meaning

  • attribute noun A quality or characteristic that belongs to a person or thing.
  • nature noun The physical world and everything in it — plants, animals, landscapes, and natural forces — as distinct from human-made things.
  • quality noun The overall standard or excellence of something, as opposed to how much of it there is.

Senses

性質 is used for these senses in English:

  • attribute A characteristic or quality of a thing.
  • nature The essential or innate characteristics of a person or thing which will always tend to manifest, especially in contrast to specific contexts, reason, religious duty, upbringing, and personal pretense or effort.
  • quality (countable) Something that differentiates a thing or person.

attribute — full definition

  1. noun A quality or characteristic that belongs to a person or thing.
  2. noun A property or setting associated with a data object, in computing.
  3. verb To say that something is caused by or belongs to a particular source.

nature — full definition

  1. noun The physical world and everything in it — plants, animals, landscapes, and natural forces — as distinct from human-made things.
  2. noun A person or thing's essential character — the qualities that make them who or what they fundamentally are.
  3. noun The general type or category something belongs to.

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