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Antonyms for qualitative


Grammar : Adj
Spell : kwol-i-tey-tiv
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkwɒl ɪˌteɪ tɪv



Definition of qualitative

Origin :
  • 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.
  • adj concerning qualities not quantities
Example sentences :
  • Cases of complete anosmia and qualitative obtuseness are not uncommon.
  • Extract from : « Criminal Man » by Gina Lombroso-Ferrero
  • It has always been known that there is qualitative relation.
  • Extract from : « Mind and Motion and Monism » by George John Romanes
  • Labor, Marx pointed out, has two sides, the qualitative and the quantitative.
  • Extract from : « Socialism » by John Spargo
  • That this is only quantitative, not qualitative, he has already shown.
  • Extract from : « Evolution in Modern Thought » by Ernst Haeckel
  • The infinity of God is not a quantitative, but a qualitative infinity.
  • Extract from : « Christianity and Greek Philosophy » by Benjamin Franklin Cocker
  • But this is a relative and qualitative, rather than an absolute, truth.
  • Extract from : « The Armed Forces Officer » by U. S. Department of Defense
  • (a) The composition (qualitative and quantitative) of the particular alloys.
  • Extract from : « The Preservation of Antiquities » by Friedrich Rathgen
  • But the Archbishop's limit is not qualitative in man; it is quantitative in the universe.
  • Extract from : « Flowers of Freethought » by George W. Foote
  • These results, from a qualitative point of view, are self-evident.
  • Extract from : « Lord Kelvin » by Andrew Gray
  • The need for the scholar was not only qualitative, but quantitative.
  • Extract from : « Some War-time Lessons » by Frederick P. (Frederick Paul) Keppel

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