Qualitative Definition

kwŏlĭ-tātĭv
adjective
Having to do with quality or qualities.
Webster's New World

Of descriptions or distinctions based on some quality rather than on some quantity.

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(chemistry) Of a form of analysis that yields the identity of a compound.

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noun
Something qualitative.
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Other Word Forms of Qualitative

Noun

Singular:
qualitative
Plural:
qualitatives

Origin of Qualitative

  • Middle English producing a primary quality from Medieval Latin quālitātīvus from Late Latin qualitative from Latin quālitās quālitāt- quality quality

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Qualitative Sentence Examples

  • We shall here consider the qualitative and quantitative determination of these elements.

  • This is Spinoza's theory of the infinitely infinite," the limiting notion of infinity being of a numerical, quantitative series, each term of which is a qualitative determination itself quantitatively little, e.g.

  • The third research string is in qualitative research methods.

  • The nature of the research methodology, as primarily qualitative, raises different issues from those appropriate to a quantitative study.

  • Apart from his administrative duties Fresenius occupied himself almost exclusively with analytical chemistry, and the fullness and accuracy of his text-books on that subject (of which that on qualitative analysis first appeared in 1841 and that on quantitative in 1846) soon rendered them standard works.

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