The phrase "a trait of character" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific quality or characteristic that defines a person's behavior or personality.
Example: "Honesty is a trait of character that I value highly in my friends."
Alternatives: "a character trait" or "a personality trait".
For fear someone might see them and think they were dancing), a trait of character he shared with Cockcroft, a veteran of the first world war who, on his return from the trenches, informed his girlfriend that they could not think of being married until he had achieved financial security, which took him nine years.
They assume that behavior is often sufficient to indicate the presence of a trait of character, and they ignore the other psychological aspects of character (both cognitive and affective) that, for most of the philosophers discussed in this entry, form a more or less consistent and integrated set of beliefs and desires.
Hume maintains against the rationalists that, although reason is needed to discover the facts of any concrete situation and the general social impact of a trait of character or a practice over time, reason alone is insufficient to yield a judgment that something is virtuous or vicious.
A distinct version, the moral sensing view, treats the moral beliefs as ideas copied from the impressions of approval or disapproval that represent a trait of character or an action as having whatever quality it is that one experiences in feeling the moral sentiment (Cohon).
Poverty, had for decades been, "not a trait of character," but rather something, "created anew in each generation, but not by heredity but by circumstances".
The question "Would you describe yourself as a calm and quiet person?" changes the least, probably due to this question rather measuring a trait of character then effects of illness or treatment.
But this double role of normative discourse inevitably raises the idea of supererogation, the category of actions that are praiseworthy (either in creating good states of affairs or in reflecting a particularly virtuous trait of character) yet at the same time not obligatory.
To the Editor: David Brooks seems to do away with the trait of "character" and substitutes a boiling caldron of psychological urges that compete with one another.
To do the job well you need certain habits of mind and traits of character: a sense of curiosity, an interest in history, a devotion to accuracy, a knack for telling a story, and a sense of moral concern, if not outrage, about public life.
The subject of the movie is secrets, and, even though Ronny seems to have overcome his troubles, furtiveness is a long-ingrained habit, maybe even a defining trait of his character.
invalid n., adj. 1. n. a possible constituent trait of a character which if present signifies that the character cannot ever appear in a token except under the control of a single escape character.
