trait

Gender is the word that’s often used to describe the traits, characteristics, experiences, and social expectations that are associated with identity.

Like humans, dogs’ personality traits stayed fairly stable over time.

It’s a trait that’s terrible for us, but great for an artificial nose.

Such studies try to determine whether particular traits, diseases or conditions are due to genes or instead reflect environmental influences.

This trait, dubbed “virulence,” needs to stay semi-consistent so that the virus can maintain itself inside a host.

This uniqueness is a trait that she attributes to her early success as a dominatrix.

In a close-to-human face, every inhuman trait becomes magnified.

Self-realized masters can get stern and even appear angry if a disciple openly manifests some undesirable character trait.

By using some sort of filter—like, perhaps, a universally understood saying—the trait is more easily conveyed.

The Royalist has always maintained that Harry's red hair is a Spencer, not a Hewitt trait.

No trait is better marked in the normal child than the impulse to subject others to his own disciplinary system.

It is a fine trait in Scotchmen that, deeply respecting themselves, they respect others.

Does a friend come and add to the gross character of such a man the unknown trait of disgusting gluttony?

The sterling trait in his character is, that he grasps after originality, and grapples with every difficulty.

This trait in the man of the Midi is one that Daudet has brought out humorously in the Tartarin books.