different between qualm vs quale

English

Alternative forms

• calm (dialectal)

Etymology

Perhaps from Middle English qualm, cwalm (“death, sickness, plague”), which is from Old English cwealm (West Saxon: "death, disaster, plague"), ?tcualm (Anglian: "utter destruction"), from Proto-West Germanic *kwalm (“killing, death, destruction”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?elH- (“to stick, pierce; pain, injury, death”), whence also quell. Although the sense development is possible, this has the problem that there are no attestations in intermediate senses before the appearance of "pang of apprehension, etc." in the 16th century. The alternative etymology is from Dutch kwalm or German Qualm "steam, vapor, mist," earlier "daze, stupefaction", which is from the root of German quellen (“to stream, well up”). The sense "feeling of faintness" is from 1530; "uneasiness, doubt" from 1553; "scruple of conscience" from 1649.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kw?m/, /kw?m/, /kw?lm/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kw??m/, /kw??m/

Noun

qualm (plural qualms)

1. A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc. [from 16th c.]
2. A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness. [from 16th c.]
3. A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. (Now often in negative constructions.) [from 17th c.]

4. (archaic, Britain dialectal) Mortality; plague; pestilence.
5. (archaic, Britain dialectal) A calamity or disaster.

Synonyms

• compunction
• misgiving
• scruple
• unease/uneasiness
• See Thesaurus:apprehension

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

qualm (third-person singular simple present qualms, present participle qualming, simple past and past participle qualmed)

1. (intransitive) To have a sickly feeling.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “qualm”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cwalm, cualm, qwalm, qualme

Etymology

From Old English cwealm, from Proto-West Germanic *kwalm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwalm/

Noun

qualm

1. Plague, disease or sickness; that which afflicts.
2. The effects, fruits, or ravages of plague.
3. (rare) Killing (as a concept or as an instance)

Descendants

• English: qualm (possibly)
• Scots: qualm (possibly)

References

• “qualm, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-12.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw??l/, /?kwe?l/

Noun

quale (plural qualia)

1. (philosophy) An instance of subjective, conscious experience.
   • 2011, Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

     I was more like a vegetable than a person—with my consciousness only a shadow of self-awareness, only a dim sense of qualia penetrated my mental haze.

Anagrams

• Equal., equal, queal

Ido

Etymology

From quala +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kwa.le/, /?kwa.l?/

Adverb

quale

1. (interrogative adverb) how, as, like

Related terms

• quala (“what kind of”)

• qualeso (“quality”)

• qualesala (“qualitative”)

See also

• qua (“who (person)”)
  • quo (“what (thing)”)
  • qui (“who (plural)”)
  • pro quo (“why”)
• ube (“where”)
• kande (“when”)
• quanta (“how much”)
  • quanto (“quantity”)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin qu?lis, qu?lem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kwa.le/
• Hyphenation: qua?le

Adjective

quale m or f (plural quali)

1. (question) what?

   Synonym: che

2. (in choosing options) which?

3. (exclamation) what

   Synonym: che

4. (in lists) such as, like

   Synonyms: come, tipo

Usage notes

• Poetic or archaic variants before consonant: quai, quà.

Pronoun

quale

1. which ... ?

Derived terms

• il quale (relative pronoun)

Adverb

quale

1. as

   Synonym: come

Related terms

• qualche
• qualcosa
• qualcuno
• qualità
• qualsiasi
• qualunque

Latin

Pronoun

qu?le

1. nominative neuter singular of qu?lis
2. accusative neuter singular of qu?lis
3. vocative neuter singular of qu?lis

Middle English

Noun

quale

1. Alternative form of whale