characteristics

Synonyms

feature detail facet trait signalment

Antonyms

commons

Phrases with the word

individual characteristics having characteristics of both sexes indicative characteristics boy characteristics family of characteristics congenital characteristics

Examples

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. E. M. Forster

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. Robertson Davies

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. Samuel Johnson

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. Harry Emerson Fosdick

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. Aristophanes

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends. Jean Cocteau