🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

nota positiva

Pronunciation / Transliteration: no-ta po-zi-ti-va

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Redeeming quality/rɪˈdiːmɪŋ ˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti/
noun phraseCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #8500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"La sua gentilezza è la sua unica nota positiva."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun phrase
  1. 1

    An aspect of a person or thing that saves them from being entirely bad, worthless, or unpleasant.

    "His arrogance is hard to bear, but his honesty is his one redeeming quality."
  2. 2

    A positive feature that counterbalances negative characteristics in an otherwise flawed situation.

    "The hotel room was tiny and outdated, but the breathtaking ocean view was its sole redeeming quality."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'redeem', originating from the Latin 'redimere' (to buy back, from re- 'back' + emere 'to buy'), and 'quality', from the Latin 'qualitas' (of what kind). Historically used in a religious or financial context to buy back or save, 'redeeming' evolved by the 19th century to denote something that compensates for faults, paired with 'quality' to describe an offsetting positive trait.

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