trait.
An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.
Meaning & usage
An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.
inherited traits and acquired traits
The number one personality trait I hate is hypocrisy. Why can't you be consistent!?
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.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Middle French trait (“line, feature”), from Latin tractus (“drawing, pulling”), from Latin trahō. Doublet of tract.
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