primary quality

noun Epistemology.

any of the qualities inherent in an object, namely quantity, extent, figure, solidity, and motion or rest.
Compare secondary quality.

Origin of primary quality

First recorded in 1650–60

Words nearby primary quality

primary process, primary processes, primary producer, primary pulmonary lobule, primary qualities, primary quality, primary rainbow, primary reaction, primary root, primary school, primary sex characteristic

British Dictionary definitions for primary qualities

primary qualities

pl n

(in empiricist philosophy) those properties of objects that are directly known by experience, such as size, shape, and number