Synonyms for trait
treɪt; Brit. also treɪtrait

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1. trait

   A characteristic belongs to the nature or character of the person, thing, or class, and serves to identify an object; as, a copper-colored skin, high cheek-bones, and straight, black hair are characteristics of the American Indian. A sign is manifest to an observer; a mark or a characteristic may be more difficult to discover; an insensible person may show signs of life, while sometimes only close examination will disclose marks of violence. Pallor is ordinarily a mark of fear; but in some brave natures it is simply a characteristic of intense earnestness. Mark is sometimes used in a good, but often in a bad sense; we speak of the characteristic of a gentleman, the mark of a villain. Compare ATTRIBUTE; CHARACTER.

   Synonyms:
   attribute, attribute, character, characteristic, distinction, feature, indication, mark, peculiarity, property, quality, sign, singularity, trace

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1. trait

   Synonyms:
   feature, characteristic, touch, stroke, line

Princeton's WordNet

1. traitnoun

   a distinguishing feature of your personal nature

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1. • Attribute

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1. character flaw

   it is a characteristic that is portrayed by an individual.

   Submitted by rinat on August 11, 2019  

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1. traitnoun

   Synonyms:
   stroke, touch, mark, line

2. traitnoun

   Synonyms:
   feature, lineament, characteristic, peculiarity, mark

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1. List of paraphrases for "trait":

   character, characteristic, feature, nature, characters

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1. Dean Koontz:

   I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.

2. Richard Isaacson:

   Specific traits may increase risk due to a lifetime of behaviors that predispose a person to developing cognitive decline or Alzheimer's disease, or there could be more of a direct biological role related to early disease pathology, neuroticism is specifically one trait that comes to mind, and past meta-analyses have also show this. Rumination and worry is linked to smaller brain volumes.

3. Brett Begemann:

   We would be in the position of selling those seed and trait assets blind.

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

5. Julia Monk:

   Usually, when evolutionary biologists see a trait thats really widespread across evolutionary lineages, we at least consider the idea that the trait is ancestral and was preserved in all those lineages, so why hadnt people considered that hypothesis for SSB ?