"characteristic qualities" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the unique traits and qualities that distinguish a person, place, or thing. For example: "The city's characteristic qualities, including its vibrant culture and diverse population, make it a popular destination."
Dick Bullen was typical of men from an era often referred to as "The Greatest Generation" and exhibited their characteristic qualities of integrity, courage, optimism, and generosity.
Other characteristic qualities include grandeur, drama and contrast (especially in lighting), curvaceousness, and an often dizzying array of rich surface treatments, twisting elements, and gilded statuary.
One of its most characteristic qualities was the use of stone in walled cities, huge doorways with intricately carved paneling, and great paved roads.
It shows that the diamond characteristic qualities of the diamond film can be significantly promoted by adequately adjusting the working distance.
The process brings out all his characteristic qualities as a novelist – his essayistic lucidity, his preference for distillation and abstraction, his sympathetic interest in morally compromised figures, his faith in the transcendent value of art.
Various figures, including most famously the Tory prime minister Stanley Baldwin on St George's Day 1925 and George Orwell in 1940, have reached their definitions of national identity by drawing up lists of characteristic qualities or traits.
The Morgan's first full-scale presentation of its Northern European drawings radiates characteristic quality and scope.
As I noted in my review of Blithe Spirit, the characteristic quality of a Coward play is of someone making their escape.
She had a full, beautiful lyric soprano of characteristic quality and was eminently phonogenic, as eloquently testified by any of 27 complete opera recordings she made for Decca between 1951 and 1970, in the first generation of the LP.
For close to 50 years, Koch has created a body of work whose characteristic quality is a sense of playfulness that becomes poignant at the turn of a line.
A capacity to catch the colour of life among the urban poor is a characteristic quality of the early and middle work of Egypt's greatest modern novelist, Naguib Mahfouz (Najīb Maḥfūẓ), notably in Midaq Alley (1947).
