trait
An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.
Example
“The number one personality trait I hate is hypocrisy. Why can't you be consistent!?”
Other meanings
An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.
“Traits are somewhat between an interface and a mixin.”
Related words
- eigentrait
- multitrait
- neurotrait
- subtrait
- traitless
- character trait
- subordinate trait
- X-linked trait
- traitlike
- personality trait
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "traho".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “trait” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.