trait
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noun
a
distinguishing
quality
or
characteristic
, typically one
belong
ing to a
person
: 際立った性質や特徴、概して人に属してるもの
⦅かたく⦆ (性格上・身体上の)特徴, 特性, 特質 (!修飾語と共に用いる)
e.g.
he was a letter-of-the-law man, a common trait among coaches.: 彼はコーチの間でよくある特徴の、規則通り実行する男だ。
a
genetically
determined
characteristic
.: 遺伝的に決定された特徴
ORIGIN
mid
16th century
: from
French
, from
Latin
tractus
‘
drawing
,
draft
’ (see
tract
1). 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 century
).