qualitative
[kwol-i-tey-tiv]
- pertaining to or concerned with quality or qualities.
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Origin of qualitative
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Contemporary Examples
For us, there was a big kind of qualitative leap on this record.
The approach she takes in her book is what is known in psychological research as a “qualitative” study.
The Pentagon and CIA work constantly with their Israeli counterparts to ensure Israel's qualitative edge.
Preserving that qualitative edge enjoys broad bipartisan support in the United States.
Historical Examples
Cases of complete anosmia and qualitative obtuseness are not uncommon.
Criminal ManGina Lombroso-Ferrero
It has always been known that there is qualitative relation.
Mind and Motion and MonismGeorge John Romanes
Labor, Marx pointed out, has two sides, the qualitative and the quantitative.
SocialismJohn Spargo
That this is only quantitative, not qualitative, he has already shown.
Evolution in Modern ThoughtErnst Haeckel
The infinity of God is not a quantitative, but a qualitative infinity.
Christianity and Greek PhilosophyBenjamin Franklin Cocker
qualitative
- involving or relating to distinctions based on quality or qualitiesCompare quantitative
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Word Origin and History for qualitative
adj.
early 15c., "that produces a (physical) quality," from Medieval Latin qualitativus "relating to quality," from stem of Latin qualitas "a quality, property, nature" (see quality). Meaning "concerned with quality" is from c.1600 in English, from French qualitatif or Medieval Latin qualitativus. Related: Qualitatively.
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