All trait synonyms

noun trait

• mark — Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") 1837–1904, U.S. merchant and politician: senator 1897–1904.
• circumstantiality — the quality of being circumstantial
• characteristic — The characteristics of a person or thing are the qualities or features that belong to them and make them recognizable.
• mannerism — a habitual or characteristic manner, mode, or way of doing something; distinctive quality or style, as in behavior or speech: He has an annoying mannerism of tapping his fingers while he talks. They copied his literary mannerisms but always lacked his ebullience.
• detail — The details of something are its individual features or elements.
• differential — of or relating to difference or diversity.
• feature — a prominent or conspicuous part or characteristic: Tall buildings were a new feature on the skyline.
• character — The character of a person or place consists of all the qualities they have that make them distinct from other people or places.
• oddness — differing in nature from what is ordinary, usual, or expected: an odd choice.
• distinction — a marking off or distinguishing as different: His distinction of sounds is excellent.
• lineaments — Plural form of lineament.
• way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
• freakishness — The characteristic or quality of being freakish.
• distinctive feature — a feature of the sound system of a language that serves as the crucial distinguishing mark between two phonemes, as the distinctive feature of voicing, which distinguishes b from p in English, or nasality, which distinguishes m from b and p.
• quirk — a peculiarity of action, behavior, or personality; mannerism: He is full of strange quirks.
• mixup — an act or instance of mixing.
• lineament — Often, lineaments. a feature or detail of a face, body, or figure, considered with respect to its outline or contour: His fine lineaments made him the very image of his father.
• affectation — If you say that someone's attitude or behaviour is an affectation, you disapprove of the fact that it is not genuine or natural, but is intended to impress other people.
• differentia — the character or attribute by which one species is distinguished from all others of the same genus.
• druthers — one's own way, choice, or preference: If I had my druthers, I'd dance all night.
• indicia — indicia (def 2).
• quality — an essential or distinctive characteristic, property, or attribute: the chemical qualities of alcohol.
• crotchet — A crotchet is a musical note that has a time value equal to two quavers.
• idiosyncrasy — A mode of behavior or way of thought peculiar to an individual.
• hallmark — an official mark or stamp indicating a standard of purity, used in marking gold and silver articles assayed by the Goldsmiths' Company of London; plate mark.
• aspect — An aspect of something is one of the parts of its character or nature.
• crasis — the fusion or contraction of two adjacent vowels into one
• attribute — If you attribute something to an event or situation, you think that it was caused by that event or situation.
• earmark — any identifying or distinguishing mark or characteristic: The mayor's statement had all the earmarks of dirty politics.
• queerness — strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.