Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or concerning quality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Originally, depending upon qualities; now, non-quantitative; relating to the possession of qualities without reference to the quantities involved; stating that some phenomenon occurs, but without measurement. The word occurs, according to Dr. Fitzedward Hall, in Gaule's
Πῦς -μαντία (1652).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to quality; having the character of quality.
- adjective (Chem.) analysis which merely determines the constituents of a substance without any regard to the quantity of each ingredient; -- contrasted with
quantitative analysis .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of
descriptions ordistinctions based on somequality rather than on somequantity - adjective chemistry of a form of
analysis that yields theidentity of acompound - noun Something qualitative.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective involving distinctions based on qualities
- adjective relating to or involving comparisons based on qualities
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Forecasting can be successful, particularly over the short term and, over the longer term, by understanding what they call "qualitative and contingent" regulatories or trends "in driving price swings."
Robert Teitelman: Frydman and Goldberg's Beyond Mechanical Markets Robert Teitelman 2011
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Forecasting can be successful, particularly over the short term and, over the longer term, by understanding what they call "qualitative and contingent" regulatories or trends "in driving price swings."
Robert Teitelman: Frydman and Goldberg's Beyond Mechanical Markets Robert Teitelman 2011
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Bernanke's "quantitative easing" was never accompanied by what might be called "qualitative easing" - targeted policies designed to ensure that some of the financial advantages given to banks by the Fed were used to help the overall economy.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Bernankemania! Empty Golden Words From the Leader of the Temple RJ 2011
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Bernanke's "quantitative easing" was never accompanied by what might be called "qualitative easing" - targeted policies designed to ensure that some of the financial advantages given to banks by the Fed were used to help the overall economy.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Bernankemania! Empty Golden Words From the Leader of the Temple RJ 2011
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Face-to-face in qualitative settings, participatory focus groups and ethnographic studies, another picture emerges.
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A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.
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The vintage approach assumes that new investments are characterized by the most modern technology and that the capital that is formed as a result does not change in qualitative terms over its remaining life.
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How will you measure long-term qualitative social outcomes?
Forbes.com: News Paul Klein 2011
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Slide 4: Identify the key difference between positivist and interpretivist research methods (make certain you use the terms qualitative and I nfl uences on the choi ce of quantitative in your answer) r esear ch method used by soci ol ogi sts
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Moody's makes five-year medium-term qualitative assessments for each country, but does not appear to do any long-term quantitative or critical work.
FXstreet.com 2009
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