The phrase "a quality akin to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a characteristic or trait that is similar to another quality.
Example: "Her determination is a quality akin to that of a seasoned athlete, showcasing her commitment to success."
Alternatives: "a quality similar to" or "a trait comparable to".
After months of using a fairly good pair of retail headphones from Sony, we found the sound of the edition7 to have a comparable quality akin to looking out a familiar window that has just been cleaned and realizing you were missing a great deal of the view all along.
The album's fourth track, Arabella, has a surrealist quality akin to Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (sample lyric: "Her lips are like the galaxy's edge/And a kiss the colour of a constellation falling into place").
The song has a Hitchcockian quality, akin to Bernard Herrmann's music.
The new attitude drew on a vein that was comic, poetic, and fantastic, exploring an irrational quality akin to humour inherent in the creative process itself, as well as on a reserve of ironic detachment.
It was this lack, their sense of longing for the ordinary, taken-for-granted aspects of life, that gave their words a certain luminous quality akin to poetry".
Newton's gloss on Rule 3 in the Principia, discussed below, only made matters worse from Leibniz's point of view, since it tacitly (or functionally) treats gravity as a kind of universal quality akin to extension or impenetrability.
Elaborate methods for the evaluation of research quality, akin to the UK national Research Excellence Framework (REF), are currently available.
Consequently, biodiesel produced from H. sp. and K. sp. would be unsuitable for high blend levels but would have combustion qualities akin to high performance diesel fuel such as a high cetane number, lower NOx emissions and be highly oxidatively stable.
Detritus was thus transformed into work of great power and beauty, with qualities akin to prehistoric art, which we find beautiful and compelling without knowing its meaning or purpose.
Out of the box it has a quality feel akin to the iPad.
