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qualitative
/ˈkwɑ.ləˌteɪ.tɪv/
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What does qualitative mean?
adjective
- Of descriptions or distinctions based on some quality rather than on some quantity.
- Of a form of analysis that yields the identity of a compound.
- high-quality
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noun
- Something qualitative.
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I am leaving chemistry--having completed the course in qualitative analysis--and am entering upon the study of biology.
Imagine these as in a Pythagorean dream, stripped of qualitative difference and reduced to mathematical abstractions.
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Greek and medieval knowledge accepted the world in its qualitative variety, and regarded nature's processes as having ends, or in technical phrase as teleological.
They are coming to see that a QUALITATIVE factor as opposed to a QUANTITATIVE one is of primary importance in dealing with the great masses of humanity.