noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.

   "inherited traits and acquired traits"

2. 2
   a distinguishing feature of your personal nature wordnet
3. 3
   An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.

   "Traits are somewhat between an interface and a mixin."

Synonyms

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acculturationaffectionairaromaattributebadge

Example

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"Woman's intuition is clearly a valuable trait."

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French trait (“line, feature”), from Latin tractus (“drawing, pulling”), from Latin trahō. Doublet of tract.

Related phrases

X-linked traitcharacter traitpersonality traitsubordinate trait

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