Definition of Characteristic

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Characteristic

Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive.

A distinguishing trait, quality, or property; an element of character; that which characterized.

The integral part (whether positive or negative) of a logarithm.

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Characteristic Quotations

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
Henry David Thoreau

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
Brian Tracy

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
Denis Waitley

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
Elie Wiesel

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
Henri Matisse

Characteristic Translations

characteristic in Afrikaans is kenmerkend, tipies
characteristic in Danish is ejendommelig
characteristic in Dutch is karakteristiek, tekenend, kenmerkend
characteristic in French is attribut
characteristic in German is charakteristisch, Charaktereigenschaft
characteristic in Latin is proprius

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