What is the the difference between a charater and a characteristic?

Question

1. Your characteristics are the criteria to distinguish your characters.

2. YOU CAN AVOID A CHARACTER. YOU CAN NEVER AVOID A CHARACTERISTIC.

3. Avoidable one is a variant. Unavoidable one is invariant.

Answer 1

char‧ac‧ter  /ˈkærɪktər/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kar-ik-ter] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun 1. the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
2. one such feature or trait; characteristic.
3. moral or ethical quality: a man of fine, honorable character.
4. qualities of honesty, courage, or the like; integrity: It takes character to face up to a bully.
5. reputation: a stain on one's character.
6. good repute.
7. an account of the qualities or peculiarities of a person or thing.
8. a person, esp. with reference to behavior or personality: a suspicious character.
9. Informal. an odd, eccentric, or unusual person.
10. a person represented in a drama, story, etc.
11. a part or role, as in a play or film.
12. a symbol as used in a writing system, as a letter of the alphabet.
13. the symbols of a writing system collectively.
14. a significant visual mark or symbol.
15. status or capacity: the character of a justice of the peace.
16. a written statement from an employer concerning the qualities of a former employee.
17. Literature. (esp. in 17th- and 18th-century England) a formal character sketch or descriptive analysis of a particular human virtue or vice as represented in a person or type. Compare character sketch.
18. Genetics. any trait, function, structure, or substance of an organism resulting from the effect of one or more genes as modified by the environment.
19. Computers. a. any symbol, as a number, letter, punctuation mark, etc., that represents data and that, when encoded, is usable by a machine.
b. one of a set of basic symbols that singly or in a series of two or more represents data and, when encoded, is usable in a computer.

20. a style of writing or printing.
21. Roman Catholic Theology. the ineffaceable imprint received on the soul through the sacraments of baptism, confirmation, and ordination.
22. (formerly) a cipher or cipher message.
–adjective 23. Theater. a. (of a part or role) representing a personality type, esp. by emphasizing distinctive traits, as language, mannerisms, physical makeup, etc.
b. (of an actor or actress) acting or specializing in such roles.

–verb (used with object) Archaic. 24. to portray; describe.
25. to engrave; inscribe.
—Idioms26. in character, a. in harmony with one's personal character or disposition: Such behavior is not in character for him.
b. in accordance with the role or personality assumed in a performance: an actor in character.

27. out of character, a. out of harmony with one's personal character or disposition: Her remarks were out of character.
b. away from the role or personality assumed in a performance: The actor stepped out of character.



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char·ac·ter·is·tic (krk-t-rstk) Pronunciation Key
adj.
Being a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing; distinctive: heard my friend's characteristic laugh; the stripes that are characteristic of the zebra.

n.
A feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait.
Mathematics. The integral part of a logarithm as distinguished from the mantissa: The characteristic of the logarithm 6.3214 is 6.
Mathematics. The least number of times the multiplicative identity in a ring needs to be added to itself to reach the additive identity, or, if the additive identity is never reached, zero. The integers have a characteristic of zero; the integers modulus 12 have a characteristic of 12.

Answer 2

You've answered your own question. Is that one of your characteristic behaviours? What a character! I've got one like that but she often gets it wrong and then keeps on guessing so I can't squeeze the answer into the quiz. She's adorable. Small point - the item (1) would refer to characters in a story (otherwise it is singular); item (2) isn't always true: The Ancient Mariner was a character, and the wedding guest could not avoid him and (3) I interpret this as implying character being varied; characteristics less so (which makes 'em characteristic) ... but they do change; I'm not so characteristically nimble and quick as I was when young, and I've less hair than the wavy shock that used to be remarked upon! (sadly) But characteristically I accept that and get on with life cheerfully enough. Good luck

Answer 3

A character is a person.

A characteristic is more like a feeling.

Answer 4

I guess you really have a question there -- unless you are pulling our leg by giving the answers too. let me guess my way. starting from "characteristic" which means the same type comes often -- usual not unusual -- ex. he is always late, that is characteristic of him! once you understand this. we can now explain "a character" it means "a lot" a whole package together ex. he is such a character -- which means he is a whole lot -- in all his aspects not an individual part. i tried my best -- hope it satisfies you.

Answer 5

noun and adjective.

1) I'm not reducible to properties; I resent your reduction!
2) a) 'Character' is ambiguous. It could refer to a property or to a person with said property. b) Taking the second view, I can still change some of my properties.

Answer 6

now why would you ask something you already got the answer for

Answer 7

well, spelling is one.


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