qualitas
Qualitas is a Latin term meaning quality or kind, derived from qualis, “of what kind.” In historical and philosophical contexts, qualitas denotes the properties or attributes that qualify a thing, as opposed to measures of amount or extension.
In Aristotelian and scholastic philosophy, qualitas is treated as one of the categories of being, encompassing
In discussions of mind and perception, the term qualitas is sometimes used in older or Latin-text sources
Outside strictly philosophical discourse, qualitas remains a general word in Latin and Romance languages, where cognates