mindmap root((属性)) quality is a general term applicable to any trait or characteristic whether material or immaterial, individual or generic: a star whose acting had a persistently amateurish ~. property implies a characteristic that belongs to a thing's essential nature and may be used to describe a type or species: asked them to name the basic ~ies of mammals. character applies to a peculiar and distinctive quality of an individual or a class: each of the island's villages has a distinctive ~. attribute implies a quality ascribed to a thing or a being: a man with none of the traditional ~s of a popular hero.