TRAIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trait mean? 

• TRAIT (noun)
  The noun TRAIT has 1 sense:

1. a distinguishing feature of your personal nature

  Familiarity information: TRAIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A distinguishing feature of your personal nature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("trait" is a kind of...):

attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trait"):

folly; foolishness; unwiseness (the trait of acting stupidly or rashly)

egocentrism; egoism; self-centeredness; self-concern; self-interest (concern for your own interests and welfare)

drive (the trait of being highly motivated)

firmness; firmness of purpose; resoluteness; resolution; resolve (the trait of being resolute)

irresoluteness; irresolution (the trait of being irresolute; lacking firmness of purpose)

discipline (the trait of being well behaved)

indiscipline; undiscipline (the trait of lacking discipline)

pride (the trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards)

conceit; conceitedness; vanity (the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride)

humbleness; humility (a disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride)

wisdom; wiseness (the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight)

stinginess (a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money)

judgement; judgment; perspicacity; sound judgement; sound judgment (the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions)

trust; trustfulness; trustingness (the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others)

distrust; distrustfulness; mistrust (the trait of not trusting others)

cleanliness (diligence in keeping clean)

uncleanliness (lack of cleanly habits)

behavior; behaviour; conduct; demeanor; demeanour; deportment ((behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people)

flexibility; tractability; tractableness (the trait of being easily persuaded)

intractability; intractableness (the trait of being hard to influence or control)

ruralism; rurality (a rural characteristic or trait)

uncommunicativeness (the trait of being uncommunicative)

character; fiber; fibre (the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions)

nature (the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions)

compulsiveness; compulsivity (the trait of acting compulsively)

emotionalism; emotionality (emotional nature or quality)

emotionlessness; unemotionality (absence of emotion)

activeness; activity (the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically)

inactiveness; inactivity; inertia (a disposition to remain inactive or inert)

earnestness; serious-mindedness; seriousness; sincerity (the trait of being serious)

frivolity; frivolousness (the trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible)

communicativeness (the trait of being communicative)

thoughtfulness (the trait of thinking carefully before acting)

thoughtlessness; unthoughtfulness (the trait of not thinking carefully before acting)

attentiveness (the trait of being observant and paying attention)

inattentiveness (the trait of not being considerate and thoughtful of others)

masculinity (the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for men)

femininity; muliebrity (the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women)

trustiness; trustworthiness (the trait of deserving trust and confidence)

untrustiness; untrustworthiness (the trait of not deserving trust or confidence)

individualism; individuality; individuation (the quality of being individual)

Holonyms ("trait" is a part of...):

personality (the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual)

 Context examples 

A group of individuals who share a common trait, such as birth year.

(Cohort, NCI Dictionary)

A condition or trait present at birth.

(Congenital, NCI Dictionary)

The study of genetic traits in animals.

(Animal Genetics, NCI Thesaurus)

Anderegg studies how tree traits affect forests and in turn, hot and dry conditions.

(How trees affect the weather, National Science Foundation)

Genetic testing can identify individuals with the trait in early infancy.

(Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2A, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Similar to other anxiety disorders, it may be inherited as an autosomal dominant trait.

(Panic Disorder, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It is considered to be an autosomal dominant trait.

(Fredrickson Type IV Lipidemia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Refers to the genetic trait involving the number of copies of a particular gene present in the genome of an individual.

(Copy Number Polymorphism, NCI Dictionary)

A disorder of neutrophils characterized by the presence of abnormal or absent chemotactic responses and hyperimmunoglobulinemia E. It is transmitted as an autosomal recessive trait and most cases reported have been in girls.

(Hyperimmunoglobulin E Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A familiar carcinoma inherited in an autosomal dominant trait.

(Hereditary Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)