- a particular quality in your personality
- personality traits
- Awareness of class is a typically British trait.
Extra Examples- She shares several character traits with her father.
- We do not know which behavioural traits are inherited and which acquired.
- a collection of traits associated with schizophrenia
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- admirable
- attractive
- desirable
- …
- have
- possess
- lack
- …
- (be) associated with
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from French, from Latin tractus ‘drawing, draught’, from trahere ‘draw, pull’. An early sense was ‘stroke of the pen or pencil in a picture’, giving rise to the sense ‘a particular feature of mind or character’ (mid 18th cent.).Want to learn more?
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