What does "trait" mean?

An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.

Trait

Common synonyms include: acculturation, affection, air, algebraic structure properties, animal feature, animal features.

/tɹeɪt/ noun

noun ·Common ·High school level

Noun

1
An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.
"inherited traits and acquired traits"
2
a distinguishing feature of your personal nature wordnet
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."

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

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