connected with what something is like or how good it is, rather than with how much of it there is 质量的;定性的;性质的 qualitative analysis/research 定性分析/研究 There are qualitative differences between the two products. 这两种产品存在着质的差别。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryQualitative is used with these nouns:- analysis
- change
- difference
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Word Originlate Middle English: from late Latin qualitativus, from Latin qualitas (translating Greek poiotēs), from qualis ‘of what kind, of such a kind’.