qualitative

Etymology

From Late Latin (or Medieval Latin) quālitātīvus. Equivalent to quality + -ative.

adj

  1. Of descriptions or distinctions based on some quality rather than on some quantity.
  2. (chemistry) Of a form of analysis that yields the identity of a compound.

noun

  1. Something qualitative.

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