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quality
English
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Old French qualité, from Latin qu?lit?tem, accusative of qu?lit?s, from qu?lis (“of what kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *k?o- (“who, how”). Cicero coined qualitas as a calque to translate the Ancient Greek word ??????? (poiót?s, “quality”), coined by Plato from ????? (poîos, “of what nature, of what kind”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kw?l?ti/
- (UK, obsolete) IPA(key): /?kwæl?ti/, /?kwæl?t?/
- (US, father-bother merger, weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /?kw?l?ti/, [?k?w????i]
Noun
quality (countable and uncountable, plural qualities)
- (uncountable) Level of excellence.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- He called for China’s cooperation in efforts to improve air quality.
- He called for China’s cooperation in efforts to improve air quality.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- (countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.
- (archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.)
- (uncountable) The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items.
- (thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.
- (emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.
- (countable, Britain, journalism) A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content.
- 1998, Bill Coxall, Lynton Robins, Robert Leach, Contemporary British Politics (page 164)
- It is argued that in the last ten years or so, quality broadsheet newspapers have become more like the tabloids. Anthony Sampson has argued that 'the frontier between the qualities and popular papers has virtually disappeared'.
- 1998, Bill Coxall, Lynton Robins, Robert Leach, Contemporary British Politics (page 164)
Usage notes
- Adjectives often applied to "quality": high, good, excellent, exceptional, great, outstanding, satisfactory, acceptable, sufficient, adequate, poor, low, bad, inferior, dubious, environmental, visual, optical, industrial, total, artistic, educational, physical, musical, chemical, spiritual, intellectual, architectural, mechanical.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:characteristic
Hyponyms
- human quality
- industrial quality
Coordinate terms
- (a property that differentiates): quiddity
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
quality (comparative more quality, superlative most quality)
- Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.
Derived terms
- qualityness
Related terms
- qualia
- qualitative
Translations
References
- Quality (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- quality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- quality in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- quality at OneLook Dictionary Search
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proletarianism
English
Etymology
proletarian +? -ism; compare proletarism.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pr?'l?tâ?r??n?z?m, IPA(key): /?p???l??t?????n?z?m/
- (General American) enPR: pr?'l?tâ?r??n?z?m, IPA(key): /?p?o?l??t??i.?n?z?m/
- Hyphenation: pro?le?tar?i?an?ism
Noun
proletarianism (usually uncountable, plural proletarianisms)
- (uncountable) The political character and practice of the proletariat; advocacy or advancement of the proletariat’s interests.
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being a proletarian.
- (countable) A proletarian word or turn of phrase; a vulgarism.
- 1973, Flying, volume 92, page 8:
- The scatological proletarianisms of Don Jonz reflect poorly on your heretofore high level of editorial standards.
- 1992, Thomas Burns McArthur (editor), The Oxford Companion to the English language, page 553:
- There is a fine dividing line between the everyday sensationalism of popular and tabloid journalism and the parodies in such publications as the British satirical magazine Private Eye, which uses proletarianisms in such headlines as The Royals, dontcha lovem!
- 2005, John Sutherland, biographical note to H. G. Wells’ The History of Mr Polly (Penguin Classics):
- Sadly, even the ‘genteel’ proletarianisms of Polly and his class are nowadays only normally heard among citizens over the age of fifty. In a few years that richly nuanced dialect will be as dead as Sanskrit.
- 1973, Flying, volume 92, page 8:
- (uncountable, rare) Proletarians regarded as a class; the proletariat.
Derived terms
- proletarianise, proletarianised, proletarianising
References
- “prole?tarianism” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)
- “proletarianism, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (draft revision, June 2007)
proletarianism From the web:
- what does proletarianism mean
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