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# quality

«quality» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **how good or bad something is: "the quality of the paper…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a quality, qualities; quality as uncountable); adjective (quality — informal: "quality time", "a quality product")

### meaning for a pupil

1) Quality is how good or bad something is: "the quality of the paper is poor". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Q/quality/#m1)

2) Quality, used alone, often means high quality, very good: "they only sell quality shoes". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Q/quality/#m2)

3) A quality is a feature of a person's character: kindness and honesty are good qualities. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Q/quality/#m3)

4) A quality is a feature of a thing: "the soft quality of her voice". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Q/quality/#m4)

5) (informal, UK) "Quality!" is said to mean great or excellent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Q/quality/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah's summary says creation has "quantity" in the ten numbers (Sephirot) and "quality" in the twenty-two letters, together making thirty-two paths of wisdom. In the primary lessons: In science, quality is about what something is like (colour, texture) as opposed to quantity, how much there is. In everyday life we compare quality and price when shopping; "quality time" means time spent properly together. In stories, a character's qualities tell the reader what sort of person they are. Phrases: good quality, poor quality, quality control, quality time, high-quality, a leadership quality.

### examples

- The self-existing first cause called the creation into existence by quantity and quality; the former represented by ten numbers, (Sephiroth,) the latter by twenty-two letters, which form together thirty-two ways of the divine wisdom. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Q/quality/#x1)
- These pencils are good quality and do not break easily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Q/quality/#x2)
- The photo is blurry because the camera is poor quality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Q/quality/#x3)
- Kindness is her best quality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Q/quality/#x4)
- Patience is an important quality in a teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Q/quality/#x5)
- We spend quality time together at weekends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Q/quality/#x6)
- The factory checks the quality of every toy before it is sold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Q/quality/#x7)
- "We won the match 5–0!" "Quality!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Q/quality/#x8)
- You get what you pay for: cheap boots, low quality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Q/quality/#x9)
- The true leader proves himself by his qualities. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Q/quality/#x10)

### note

Plural: qualities. Uncountable when it means how good something is ("the quality of the food"); countable for features ("two qualities"). Quality (how good) is not quantity (how many or how much) — pupils often mix up these words. "Quality" alone as an adjective is informal.

### In the corpora

- [Ericsson himself said 10,000 was not a magic rule and that the quality of practice mattered more than the count.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/10/)
- ["Value" on a shop's own brand can mean cheap and of low quality.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/8/)
- [In an ethics olympiad teams discuss a case in front of judges and are scored on the quality of their thinking.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/50-mock-ethics-olympiad/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «quality» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Q/quality/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.